National Data

Portals of India

| Komal Thakkar |

Agenda

Impact of e-Governance Portals

Transparency

Accountability

Citizen Engagement

Better Governance

Better decision making

InnovationCooperation

India.gov.in is the Official Portal of the Government of India, designed, developed and hosted by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), a premier ICT organization of the Government of India under the support of the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.

The Portal has been developed as a Mission Mode Project (MMP) under the National E-Governance Plan (NEGP) of the Government. The objective behind the Portal is to provide a single window access to the information and services being provided by the Indian Government for citizens and other stakeholders.

India.gov.in has sections for people living abroad, business persons, government employees, senior citizens and children.

Four phases during the creation of the portal:

1. Phase 1 was the initiation of the portal with work on conceptualization, the blueprint and creating the technology architecture,

2. Phase 2 was the launch of the first version of the portal, which comprised existing information that was repackaged and presented in a citizen friendly manner,

3. Phase 3 was infrastructure set up, which included the launch of the Hindi version of the portal, content personalization features and the introduction of a Content Management System,

4. Phase 4 made the content universally accessible, W3C compliant and providing integration of the portal interface with online services already provided by other government departments.

India.gov.in links to Union, State, District and local level official websites and is the most comprehensive portal about the government of India with links to more than 5000 government websites.

Open Government Platform - OGPL to Promote Transparency and Citizen EngagementOGPL is a joint product from India and United States to promote transparency and greater citizen engagement by making more government data, documents, tools and processes publicly available. OGPL is available, as an open source platform. By making this available in useful machine-readable formats it allows developers, analysts, media & academia to develop new applications and insights that will help give citizens more information for better decisions.

The site was launched in October 2012 and is a part of the Open Government Initiative.

Yearly Statistics

Monthly Statistics

19 Applications

Partnership between Citizens and Government

Citizen Participation'Discuss' and 'Do'

Good Governance

Unique initiative of

nation building Citizens can share their expert

thoughts, ideas and suggestions with the Government in areas

related to various policies, programs, schemes etc.

Innovative platform

45 days of its launch as many as 215,000 users get enrolled to MyGov and more than 28000

users submitted detailed plans and

ideas on a variety of issues