Company Register / 2014 100% open

What data is expected?

List of registered (limited liability) companies. The submissions in this data category does not need to include detailed financial data such as balance sheet etc. To satisfy this category, the following minimum criteria must be met:

• Name of company
• Unique identifier of the company
• Company address
• Updated at least once a month

What data is available

•   Openly licensed? Yes(Here)
•   Is the data available for free? Yes
•   Is the data machine readable? Yes (CSV, Excel)
•   Available in bulk? Yes
•   Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Yes
•   Publicly available? Yes published by Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India)
•   Is data in digital form? Yes
•   Is the data available online? Yes (Here)
•   Does the data exist? Yes

Details

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

Reviewer comments

Double submission