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After India's 2012 data-sharing policy, the National Informatics Centre built data.gov.in to publish non-classified government data nationwide. By 2026 it hosted over 230,000 datasets, one of the world's largest sovereign open-data programmes by volume.
In February 2012, India's Union Cabinet approved the National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy, mandating that non-classified government data be shareable; the National Informatics Centre built the Open Government Data Platform at data.gov.in, launched October 2012.
By July 2026 the platform hosted more than 230,000 datasets across sectors, making it one of the largest national open-data catalogues in the world by volume, sustained for over a decade under the same institutional custodian.
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