National Data Governance Policy

During the Union Budget 2023 presentation, the finance minister Nirmala Sitaraman announced that the government of India to introduce Data Governance policy which will enable access to anonymized data.

The introduction of National Data Governance Policy will enable safe access to anonymized data and increase transparency.

The proposed National Data Governance Policy will help in boosting data led development and encourage technological growth.

Data governance is managing data usage, data security, data availability, and data integrity.

The policy will create an Indian Data Management Office which will operate under the IT Ministry. The government of India is to launch a policy to increase access to anonymized data in a safe and secure way.

Data Governance Policy intends

to unleash innovation and research
to encourage startups

Indian Data Management Office will frame, manage and periodically review and revise the National Data Governance Framework Policy (NDGFP).

Aims of the draft policy

• To transform and modernise the government’s data collection and management processes and systems through standardised guidelines, rules and standards for the collection, processing, storage, access, and use of government data, with the objective of improving governance through a whole-of-government approach towards data-led governance.

Objectives of the NDGFP

To accelerate digital governance.
To have standardised data management and security standards across the whole of government.
To accelerate the creation of common standard-based public digital platforms while ensuring privacy, safety, and trust.
To have standard APIs and other tech standards for the whole of government data management and access.
To promote transparency, accountability, and ownership of non-personal data and dataset access. For purposes of safety and trust, any non-personal data sharing by any entity can be only via platforms designated and authorised by IDMO.
To build a platform that will allow dataset requests to be received and processed.
To build digital government goals and capacity, knowledge and competency in government departments and entities.
To set quality standards and promote the expansion of the India dataset programme and overall non-personal database ecosystem.
To ensure greater citizen awareness, participation and engagement.