Jun 30, 2022
The draft policy proposes an ‘India Datasets Programme’ — a central repository of datasets collected by Government agencies.
In February, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) came up with a draft policy ‘India Data Accessibility and Use Policy 2022 (IDAU)’ for the access and usage of data held by various government agencies. The policy immediately attracted criticism, especially for allowing the monetisation of data by way of sale or licensing to private enterprises. The way the policy was drafted depicted that revenue generation was the major motive behind the policy.
