And this is year old news, but very encouraging all the same.

And this is year old news, but very encouraging all the same. Check out https://data.gov.in/ as well. Its "about page" reads

Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India - data.gov.in - is a platform for supporting Open Data initiative of Government of India. The portal is intended to be used by Government of India Ministries/ Departments their organizations to publish datasets, documents, services, tools and applications collected by them for public use. It intends to increase transparency in the functioning of Government and also open avenues for many more innovative uses of Government Data to give different perspective.

Now I used to work in the Australian Bureau of Statistics. I can appreciate what they're doing with this!
https://opensource.com/government/15/8/india-adopts-open-source-policy