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India Open Govt Data - Part 2

Record-level data from India's Open Government Data Platform (data.gov.in) as JSON Lines: 178 GiB, one JSON record per line, ready for streaming and analysis.

Part 2 of release R1 (November 2026). It holds full record exports of large data.gov.in resources, plus the platform's catalog and resource listings. Files and per-resource dumps are in Part 1.

Releases

India Open Govt Data is released in parts, with a new release every 3 months. Each quarterly release adds new parts with fresh and updated data from data.gov.in. Earlier parts stay available and are not changed.

Release	Date	Parts	Size
R1	November 2026	Part 1 - files and resource records Part 2 - record-level JSONL	485 GiB 178 GiB
R2	February 2027 (planned)	Part 3 onwards	-

All parts are listed in the India - Open Government Data collection.

About the source: Open Government Data Platform India

data.gov.in is the Government of India's official open data portal. It publishes shareable, non-sensitive data produced with public funds by central ministries, departments, states and other public bodies.


Run by	National Informatics Centre (NIC), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)
Policy	National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy (NDSAP), approved by the Union Cabinet on 9 February 2012
Launched	2012; the current platform has been live since 11 December 2014
Programme	Digital India, Pillar 6 - "Information for All"
Scale	Over 230,000 datasets, many also available through APIs
Formats	CSV, JSON, XML, XLS, ODS, PDF and others
Source licence	Government Open Data License - India (GODL), notified February 2017

Under NDSAP, ministries and departments name Chief Data Officers who publish their data on the platform as catalogs (groups of related data) and resources (individual files or API endpoints). Topics cover agriculture, health, education, finance, transport, environment, census and population, crime, rural development, energy, water and much more, at national, state and district level.

What's in Part 2

Path	Contents
`filter_work/<uuid>.records.jsonl`	All records of one data.gov.in resource, one JSON object per line, named by resource UUID
`filter_work/<uuid>.shard_<region>_<n>.records.jsonl`	Region-wise record files for some very large resources (`up` = Uttar Pradesh, `wb` = West Bengal, `uk` = Uttarakhand)
`catalog_snapshot.jsonl`, `catalogs.jsonl`	Catalog listings from data.gov.in: titles, ministries and departments, sectors
`resources.jsonl`, `files_index.jsonl`, `datagov_files_index.jsonl`	Resource metadata and file indexes linking resources to their files

Repository layout

Large files are split at line boundaries into pieces of about 2 GB, named <name>.part000.jsonl, <name>.part001.jsonl, ... Every piece is valid JSONL on its own, so you can stream or load pieces independently. Joining the pieces in order gives back the original file:

cat filter_work/<name>.part*.jsonl > filter_work/<name>.jsonl

Quick start

Stream records without downloading everything:

from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset(
    "judicialmind/india-open-govt-data-part2",
    data_files="filter_work/0c2d45a3-d0b5-4053-bf9a-e00395319472.records.part000.jsonl",
    split="train",
    streaming=True,
)
for row in ds.take(3):
    print(row)

Browse the catalog:

import pandas as pd
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
path = hf_hub_download("judicialmind/india-open-govt-data-part2", "catalogs.jsonl", repo_type="dataset")
catalogs = pd.read_json(path, lines=True)
print(catalogs.head())

Licence

Raw data: All underlying data is published by Government of India ministries and departments on data.gov.in under the Government Open Data License - India (GODL). It is free for anyone to use, including commercially, directly from data.gov.in.

This compilation: The licence below covers only JudicialMind's work: the collection, organisation, indexing, metadata and packaging of this mirror. It does not restrict your rights in the underlying government data.

Compilation licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. For commercial use of this compilation, contact surya@judicialmind.ai or hello@judicialmind.ai.

Attribution: Please credit the original publishing ministry or department and data.gov.in. This is an independent mirror, not an official Government of India release.

See LICENSE.md for the full terms.

Access

Access is gated and limited to users and organisations based in India. All form fields, including country, are required.

Your request	Result
Country is India, form email matches your Hugging Face account email, and it is an Indian institutional address (`.ac.in`, `.edu.in`, `.res.in`, `.gov.in`, `.nic.in`) of the organisation you name	Approved automatically within minutes
Country is India but the other checks do not all pass (e.g. Gmail address, company or personal domain)	Reviewed manually
Country is not India	Declined

Notes

This is an independent mirror, not an official Government of India release. Always check critical figures against the original source on data.gov.in.
Values are kept exactly as published. Some source files have inconsistent column names, mixed units, Hindi text or encoding issues.
API keys that appeared inside saved request links have been replaced with YOUR_API_KEY.

Citation

@misc{judicialmind_india_ogd_2026,
  title        = {India Open Govt Data},
  author       = {JudicialMind},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/collections/judicialmind/india-open-government-data-6af2a5b4e09a87f038aac512}},
  note         = {Mirror of the Open Government Data Platform India (data.gov.in), released in quarterly parts}
}

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