20. NATIONAL DATA SHARING AND ACCESSIBILITY POLICY (NDSAP-2012)

♤ 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 data can be shared in both human readable and machine readable formats through a network across the country.

♤ 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.