MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF EARTH SCIENCES; MINISTER OF STATE IN THE PRIME MINISTER`S OFFICE AND MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS; (DR. JITENDRA SINGH) 

(a) to (d): A Statement is laid on the Table of the House. 

STATEMENT AS REFERRED IN REPLY TO PART (a) TO (d) OF LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO.419 FOR 6/08/2014 REGARDING `NATIONAL DATA SHARING AND ACCESSIBILITY POLICY` 

(a) Yes Madam. National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy (NDSAP) was notified on 17th March, 2012. The objective of this Policy is to facilitate the access to Government of India owned shareable data and information in both human readable and machine readable forms through a network all over the country in a proactive and periodically updatable manner, within the framework of various related policies, Acts and rules of Government of India, thereby permitting wider accessibility and use of public data and information. 

(b) 86 Government Ministries/Departments/subordinate offices/organisations have contributed de-classified data sets on NDSAP Portal. The total number of data sets uploaded so far is 9526. No request has been received to de-classify the data from any department. 

(c) Non sharable data as declared by Government Organisations and data / information related to the security and sensitivity of the country. 

(d) Yes Madam. The principles on which data sharing and accessibility need to be based also includes protection of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR).