Govt To Bring National Data Governance Policy, Says FM Nirmala Sitharaman

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on January 1 while giving the Budget 2023 speech said that the Indian government will come up with a National Data Governance Policy, to help academia and start-ups with anonymised data. Sitharaman said, "To unleash innovation and research by start-ups and academia, a data governance policy will be brought out. This will enable access to anonymised data." In 2022, the IT ministry issued a fresh draft of the National Data Governance Framework Policy (NDGFP) with increased emphasis on sharing non-personal data for building a large repository of India-specific datasets and for use by researchers and start-ups.