The Government of India on February 21 published “Draft India Data Accessibility & Use Policy 2022” for public consultation.
Salient Features of Draft India Data Accessibility & Use Policy 2022
- All data collected, generated, and stored by every government ministry and department will be open and shareable barring certain exceptions.
- Indian Data Council (IDC): A regulatory authority called the Indian Data Council (IDC) will be set up to define high-value datasets, finalise data and metadata standards, and review policy implementation. The IDC will comprise the IDO (India Data Office) and data officers of five government departments. The nomination of departments and state governments in the IDC will be by rotation with a tenure of two years for one department.
- India Data Office (IDO) will be constituted by the Ministry of Electronic and Information Technology (MeitY) to streamline and consolidate data access and sharing public data repositories across the government and other stakeholders.
- The IDC will comprise the IDO and data officers of five government departments.
- Each central ministry/department will adopt and publish its domain-specific metadata and data standards.
- Data standards that cut across domains will be finalised by the IDC and, once done, adopted by all government ministries and departments concerned.
- Each central ministry or department shall define its data retention period for specific datasets and ensure compliance with the same while managing storage and sharing of datasets.
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