India / 2014 68% open

All the national statistics data are open to public, reusable and freely available in Data Portal India. The Data has been shared under National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy – 2012 (NDSAP-2012). This was a unique initiative taken by Govt of India to facilitate access to Government of India owned shareable data and information in both human readable and machine readable forms.

Under NDSAP policy National portal of India shares data on Legislation. The NDSAP policy was implemented by Govt of India to help data users and data solicitors to facilitate access completely open govt data and information. The Parliament of India comprises of Rajya Sabha & Lok Sabha, the upper house and lower house. The detail data in open format is readily available in data.gov.in.(http://data.gov.in/catalogs/ministry_department/lok-sabha-secretariat and http://data.gov.in/catalogs/ministry_department/rajya-sabha). Data contains all bills.

Data Portal India gives an exhaustive amount of data on Water Quality and Air Quality with regard to emission and other related details. The data is in open format and machine readable. Data has been shared under National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy – 2012 (NDSAP-2012). Data is only in publish annually. There is a download available from http://cpcbedb.nic.in/ - but only from explorer.
It is available in bulk.

The data available on Data Portal India is easily downloadable and available in bulk. Most importantly it is machine readable. There is unrestricted access to the basic data. Data has been shared under National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy – 2012 (NDSAP-2012). This was a unique initiative taken by Govt of India. The objective of the policy is to facilitate access to Government of India owned shareable data and information in both human readable and machine readable forms through a network all over the country in a proactive and periodically updatable manner, therefore, permitting a wider accessibility and use of public data and information. Data is also avialable in http://www.mca.gov.in/MCA21/Master_data.html. The interface of the websites is user friendly. The ministry website while registering for a company, also suggests whether that name is available or not and the probable names that can be chosen

The data is fully available in the Data Portal India website mentioned above with their links. The data is available in machine readable formats. The data portal provides important data pertaining to various aspects of the budget from 2011 to 2014 in machine readable format. The Ministry of Finance website http://indiabudget.nic.in/index.asp on Union Budget provides up to date information about the though some of it is in PDF format. The information available on Data Portal India and is completely open for reuse and further studies and research. Same is the case with the data available on the budget website. Data has been shared under National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy – 2012 (NDSAP-2012). This was a unique initiative taken by Govt of India. The objective of the policy is to facilitate access to Government of India owned shareable data and information in both human readable and machine readable forms through a network all over the country in a proactive and periodically updatable manner, therefore, permitting a wider accessibility and use of public data and information.

Real time Election Result is available through http://eciresults.nic.in/. Data in excel format is also available in the site. API is also available for real time election result. Many web/mobile app has been developed using the API of http://eciresults.nic.in/.

While timetables for trains are commonly available, for other modes of transport we could do with more easily available information. The data provided is public, still there is a "captcha code" facility which mandates human intervention in the search process. Due the heavy web traffic these websites are slow functioning. Marked as "no bulk download" / "not easily machine readable" due to capcha Real time train data is easier to find than timetable data. Cannot find open licence. http://enquiry.indianrail.gov.in/ntes/ -- real time train information https://www.irctc.co.in/ - some train information

Please note that erail.in is not an official government source.

Survey of India (http://www.surveyofindia.gov.in/), the National Survey and Mapping Organisation of the country under the Department of Science & Technology is responsible for organizing India's mapping data. The full list of available mapping products is here: http://www.surveyofindia.gov.in/pages/display/59-publications. They can be obtained from all map sale centre and other authorized agents deputed all over the country. A fee is charged. Users are free to use the maps for "developing purposes", but a fee is charged and for commercial use special conditions apply: http://www.surveyofindia.gov.in/pages/display/91-pricing-of-digital-products

Bhuvan (http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/data/download/index.php) is the gateway on Indian Earth Observation. It gives an easy way to experience, explore and visualize IRS images over Indian region. ISRO is well known amongst space faring nations for its world-leading reputation in developing new, indigenous and innovative service oriented applications using remote sensing technology. Bhuvan platform provides wide ranging information through its interactive maps and a number of products which are available on its site. The data is available for download to every one and the policy clearly states that the data can be distributed and further used for developing applications and research. But data doesn't include administrative boundaries, public equipments, transport systems, etc.

The data is easily available on the data portal India website. The Data Portal India provides important datasets on government spending and outlays which is totally open and in machine readable format. The data available on the Data portal is open for reuse and further study. Data has been shared under National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy – 2012 (NDSAP-2012). This was a unique initiative taken by Govt of India. The objective of the policy is to facilitate access to Government of India owned shareable data and information in both human readable and machine readable forms through a network all over the country in a proactive and periodically updatable manner, therefore, permitting a wider accessibility and use of public data and information. The data is also available in Ministry of Finance website "http://www.finmin.nic.in/the_ministry/dept_expenditure/cca/cca_exp_stat.asp" and http://cga.nic.in/default.aspx, which is the website for Controller General of Accounts, Ministry of Finance. The data provided by the Controller General accounts is in HTML format and is up to date.

Reviewer's note: While India has many financial report, I couldn't find a monthly transactions report in the open data portal. The link that were provided shows aggregated data, and not transactional data. Until a solid proof of this data shown by each single transaction will be found, i mark this data set as exist but not publicly available.

Two sites: http://www.indiapost.gov.in/pin/ http://data.gov.in/dataset/all-india-pincode-directory The data is available in CSV format and is updated on 22-Jul-2013. The data consists of pincodes along with post office information like address and postal code but does NOT include geographic boundaries or lat long information. The data can also be searched by location or pincode on 'http://www.indiapost.gov.in/'. The data is available completely and is from official source, i.e the site managed by National Informatics Center which is a government body. It is hard to say whether the post office address which forms each result could be connected to a lat/long location with other information as per the census requirements