India's Data Sources

Data.gov.in

This website is a government database of national and sub-national data of India from numerous government ministries and international agencies. The database has data across issue areas available for download in Excel format.

This database was used for the the following series: 

Variable
AgProdCereals	CBR	GDP2005	GDP2011
AgProdPulses	CDR	GDP2005PCPPP	GDP2011PCPPP

Planning Commission, Government of India

The Ministry of Planning in India has two websites with statistics. The first is what will be discussed in this section and the second will be discussed in the following section, NITI Aayog. The Ministry of Planning's older website is found here: http://planningcommission.nic.in/data/datatable/index.php?data=datatab

All the data available from this website are published in PDF format. This website is becoming out of date, and the Planning Commission is moving their data to other websites, such as NITI Aayog. In the future this data source will not be accessible. 

This data source was used for the following series: 

Variable
Households	LandIrPotential

NITI Aayog

The National Insitution of Transforming India (NITI) Aayog, is a recent incarnation of the Planning Commission of India. The focus of NITI Aayog's work is transforming India's states into "stronger" states and monitoring progress in the Sustainable Development Goals. This resource has state-level data regarding the economy, government finance, demography, health, households, and education. In addition to this data, there are departments within NITI Aayong that produce their own sector-specific data. The most noteworthy is the India Energy initiative which has energy data for states and its own forecasting model that runs through 2047.