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sharing among e-Governance systems. All the Government
“Digital India”- guidelines for maintaining digital:
agencies including PRIs are required to follow the IEFG

The “Digital India” programme launched by GoI, aims at framework while designing their databases.
digitally empowering the country by improving online Open data Initiatives of GoI:
infrastructure for e-governance. The important guidelines &
Structured data available for public access is termed as “Open
policies of this program are briefly described below.
Data”. The objective of the open data is to provide proactive
access to Government owned shareable data along with its
usage information in machine readable format (Ex: XML/ XLS/
ODS etc.), through a wide area network across the country. The
National Informatics Centre has set up Open Government Data
Platform (https://data.gov.in). This Platform has been developed
on the principles of Open Source and Open API policy of Govt.
of India and is hosted on the National Data Centre infrastructure
facility at NIC HQ, New Delhi. This facility is offered to all
government department including Panchayati Raj Institution
Meta data & Data Standard (MDDS):
The “meta data” means data about data, which is a structured through Software as a Service (SaaS) model.
information about a “resource” (any electronic document).
National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy:
Metadata serves the same function as a “label.” The “Data
As part of digital India Program, and in order to make
Standards” is a data dictionary that holds information about data
government data accessible to all users, the Ministry of
items used in e-governance applications. Standard Operating
Communications and Information Technology has brought out
Protocols (SOPs) for data standardization necessitate regular
National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy (NDSAP). The
updation of data, track compliance among departments to
NDSAP aims at democratizing access of government data
ensure users can make sense of similar data from different
resources to foster innovation, improve delivery of government
sources. The Data Standards help in efficient exchange and
information besides promoting transparency, accountability.
processing of data. As per “e-governance standards” prescribed
Under the ambit of Open Data Initiative of Government of
by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology , all the
India, all Ministries and the line departments including PRIs
government departments including Panchayats have to adopt
have to mandatorily publish all the sharable non-sensitive
relevant data standards. The Ministry of Panchayati Raj has
datasets in open format on the Open Government Data (OGD)
already notified the Panchayat level Meta data & Data Standard
Platform for easy use by stakeholders.
(MDDS) (http://egovstandards.gov.in).
Interoperability Framework for e-Governance (IFEG):

Most of the e-Governance systems & databases were
established to meet the specific requirements of the individual
departments. They are generally not interoperable. The Ministry
of Communications and Information Technology has brought
out the “Interoperability Framework” which establish technical
specifications for data formats and protocols for information

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