The Government of India notified the National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy 2012 on 17/3/2012 with the objective that the data/information generated using public funds should be readily available for sharing to the users for developmental planning. To implement the policy in the Planning Commission, an Oversight Committee was constituted on 11/5/2012. Upto Feb 2013, only 8 datasets were uploaded on the data portal. On 23/1/2013 the Oversight Committee was re-constituted with B.N.Satpathy, Sr. Adviser (S&T), PC, as Chairman. After reconstitution, regular meetings with all Advisers were held and concerted efforts made for uploading datasets on the Portal. As a result, as of 31/10/2013 a total of 699 datasets of the Planning Commission are available on the data portal for access. Planning Commission is at 4th position in uploading datasets compared to Ministry of Agriculture, followed by Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation, and Ministry of Water Resources. Popular datasets include GDP of India and major Sectors of Economy, Tendulkar Committee Methodology poverty line estimates of number of persons, Total forest cover in India, Macro-Economic Indicators, Aadhaar numbers generated, Domestic savings and components thereof, Annual growth rate of GDP by Industry, & Direct Benefit Transfer Scheme-wise status.

2. NDSAP Background & Overall Status

3. NDSAP : Background
 Evidence-based Planning of socio-economic development processes
rely on quality data
 There is a general need to facilitate sharing and utilization of the
large amount of data generated and residing among the entities of
the Government of India
 Potential value of Data collected or developed through public funds,
could be better realized when made publicly available
 There has been an increasing demand by the community, that data
collected with the deployment of public funds should be made more
readily available
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4. National Data Sharing & Accessibility Policy
(NDSAP)
 NDSAP was formulated through an extensive process of
consultation. It was gazette notified on 17th March 2012
 NDSAP aims to provide an enabling provision and platform for
providing proactive and open access to government data
 NDSAP is applicable to
 All sharable non-sensitive data, available either in digital
or analog forms but generated using public funds
 All Ministries / Departments / Subordinate offices /
organizations / agencies of Government of India
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5. NDSAP : Key Stakeholders
 Ministry/ Departments/ Offices/Organisations/..
 Started with the following 
To Nominate Nodal Officer (as Data Controller)
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To Contribute 5 high value datasets in next 3 months
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To Define Negative List…
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To Contribute rest of datasets within a year in schedule Manner
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To Manage their Open Data Programme
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6. NDSAP Implementation: Current Status
 Data Portal is live at http://data.gov.in
 More than 70 Data Controllers nominated (list already at portal)
 More than 4,888 Datasets from 54 Ministries/Departments (as on 28th
October, 2013)
 Workshop held for data Controllers from time to time
 Implementation Guidelines :
 Guidelines Drafted by NIC
 Reviewed by Intra ministerial Taskforce
 Discussed in Data Controller Workshop
 First Version of Guidelines circulated to all departments
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8. DATA PORTAL INDIA
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9. NATIONAL INFORMATICS CENTRE,
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10. NATIONAL INFORMATICS CENTRE,
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11. Planning Commission Datasets - Statistics
(as on 1st November, 2013)

12. Introduction to Datasets & Apps on
Data Portal India
Total Datasets
Departments Participating States Participating
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4,912
54
3
Apps
Departments Participating -
07
05
Datasets contributed by Planning Commission - 699
(as on 31st October, 2013)
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25
6
Industries Sector
4
3
2
Communications, ICT&I
7
Macro Economy
10
UIDAI
11
Water Resources Division
Agriculture
12
Labour & Employment
13
Perspective Planning
14
Integrated Action Plan Districts
16
Rural Development
0
16
Housing & Urban
20
Elementary Education
Higher Education
28
Financial Resources
Social Justice
50
49
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) – PEO
53
Health & Family Welfare
54
Power & Energy
Transport
100
ICDS Evaluation - PEO
Environment & Forests
250
233
200
150
77
43
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15. Dataset Popularity
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18. Monthly Statistics of datasets added
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19. Dataset Ratings
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Planning Commission
http://planningcommission.gov.in