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Research case

India's open government data ecosystem for land and construction

How data.gov.in organizes the open datasets relevant to land, planning, and construction so a diligence team knows where to look for independently verifiable public data.

Evidence record

Primary source
Open Government Data (OGD) Platform IndiaNational Informatics Centre (NIC), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)
Jurisdiction
India (national open-data portal aggregating central and state datasets)
Publication / currency note
Dataset availability and freshness are set by each contributing department, not by this page. Always confirm a dataset's last-updated date on data.gov.in itself before citing a figure from it.
Analysis boundary
This page is a navigation aid to the portal's structure. It does not claim Ferrum OS has a live data pipeline into data.gov.in, and it does not restate any dataset's figures as current.
Evidence status
Primary source: official Government of India open-data portal.

Explainer

data.gov.in is the Government of India’s national Open Government Data platform. Central ministries and state departments publish catalog entries there -- land records, infrastructure, planning, and market datasets among them -- each owned and updated by the contributing department, not by the portal itself.

For a land or construction diligence workflow, the practical value is being able to point at a named, publicly checkable dataset instead of an unsourced figure. The portal organizes entries by ministry, sector, and state, which is the fastest way to find the specific catalog relevant to a given parcel’s state or scheme.

This page is a navigation aid to that structure, not a claim that Ferrum OS ingests any specific data.gov.in dataset into a live product pipeline. Where a Ferrum OS workflow does reference a specific dataset, that reference is made on the relevant product page, not implied here.

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