NITI Aayog launched the National Data & Analytics Platform (NDAP) for open public use.
AIM- To democratize access to public government data by making data accessible, interoperable, interactive, and available on a user-friendly platform.
About NDAP
NDAP follows a use-case based approach to ensure that the datasets hosted on the platform are tailored to the needs of data users from government, academia, journalism, civil society, and the private sector.
All datasets are standardized to a common schema, which makes it easy to merge datasets and do cross-sectoral analysis.
It hosts foundational datasets from various government agencies, presents them coherently, and provides tools for analytics and visualization.
The main value that NDAP adds is making key foundational datasets interoperable with each other.
NDAP is a critical milestone – which aims to aid India’s progress by promoting data-driven disclosure, decision making and ensuring availability of data connecting till the last mile, is an example to how the power of data can be leveraged.
NDAP can be accessed at http://ndap.niti.gov.in and all datasets on the platform can be downloaded and merged freely.