Union Cabinet approved the National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy (NDSAP-2012)

Union cabinet of India on 9 February 2012 approved the National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy (NDSAP-2012) to facilitate access to central government owned shareable data and information. The data can be shared in both human readable and machine readable formats through a network across the country.

The NDSAP policy is designed to promote data sharing and enable access to central government owned data for national planning and development. The Union Cabinet also approved the guidelines for establishing Joint Venture Companies by Defence Public Sector Undertakings, DPSUs.

The guidelines will provide a streamlined, fair and transparent framework for entering into Joint Ventures with the ultimate objective of better risk-management, greater-efficiency and enhancing self-reliance in the defence sector as a whole. It is expected that the guidelines will foster better and deeper partnerships between the DPSUs and private partners.