Legislation 100% open

India

India is ranked #1 for this dataset
India's Index ranking for legislation is up from #25 in 2013

What data is expected?

This data category requires all national laws and statutes available to be available online, although it is not a requirement that information on legislative behaviour e.g. voting records is available.

What data is available

  •   Does the data exist? Yes
  •   Is data in digital form? Yes
  •   Publicly available? Yes published by Lok Sabha Secretariat, Rajya Sabha Secretariat)
  •   Is the data available for free? Yes
  •   Is the data available online? Yes (Here)
  •   Is the data machine readable? Yes (CSV, Excel)
  •   Available in bulk? Yes
  •   Openly licensed? Yes(Here)
  •   Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Yes

Details

Under NDSAP policy National portal of India shares data on Legislation. The NDSAP policy was implemented by Govt of India to help data users and data solicitors to facilitate access completely open govt data and information. The Parliament of India comprises of Rajya Sabha & Lok Sabha, the upper house and lower house. The detail data in open format is readily available in data.gov.in.(http://data.gov.in/catalogs/ministry_department/lok-sabha-secretariat and http://data.gov.in/catalogs/ministry_department/rajya-sabha). Data contains all bills.

Contributors

Reviewers

  • Mor Rubinstein
  • Christian Villum
  • Subhajit Ganguly

Submitters

  • Akhilesh Srivastava
  • Subhajit Ganguly
  • Tuhin Subhro Chakraborty
  • Shubhadip Biswas
  • SUSIL KUMAR Sahoo