India's 'Open Data' portal launched with 3500 datasets

Looking to promote transparent governance and innovation, India has officially inaugurated Data Portal India, a portal for the public to access and use datasets and applications provided by ministries and departments of the Government of India.

The Portal functions as a single access point for open government datasets across the country. Currently, there are about 3500 datasets from 49 government departments available for the public to access and use. The datasets include agriculture, commerce and industry, defence, finance, health, information and broadcasting, energy, transport and water resources, among others...

The Portal was developed using an open source platform called Open Government Platform (OGPL), created by a joint initiative between NIC in India and General Services Administration (GSA) in the United States...