It collects, processes, and generates a large amount of data made available publicly in an open format to facilitate use, reuse and redistribute for social, economic and developmental purposes. This data portal of the Pune Municipal Corporation (designed and developed by the Benchmark IT Solutions) is free from any license or any other mechanism of control; thus opening up of government data (municipal level) would enhance transparency and accountability while encouraging public engagement.
Keeping the need of seamless data availability and efficient sharing of data among intra-governmental agencies along with data standards and interoperable systems; Pune DataStore endorses government of India’s Open Government Data (OGD) Platform in which supports Open Data initiative of Government of India.