There has been an increasing demand by the community, that such data collected with the deployment of public funds should be made more readily available to all, for enabling rational debate, better decision making and use in meeting civil society needs.
[3] The principles on which data sharing and accessibility need to be based include: openness, flexibility, transparency, quality, security and efficiency,.
[3][2] The motivation behind this policy is United Nations Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, Principle 10: "Environmental issues are best handled with the participation of all concerned citizens, at the relevant level.
At the national level, each individual shall have appropriate access to information concerning the environment that is held by public authorities,...and the opportunity to participate in decision-making processes.
[6] The platform has been set up to provide collated access to resources (datasets/apps) under catalogs, published by different government entities in open format.
[3] The portal is intended to be used by Government of India ministries, departments and their organizations to publish datasets, documents, services, tools and applications collected by them for public use.