The Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Ministry of Jal Shakti has issued the Policy on Data Sharing, Interoperability and Stakeholder Access under Sujalam Bharat Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) on August 20, 2026. The policy establishes a secure and interoperable framework for sharing and governing rural drinking water data across states/ union territories, local governance institutions and authorised stakeholders.
It promotes common identifiers, standardised metadata, interoperable registries and secure digital services. Besides, it also introduces tiered data access to protect personal and sensitive infrastructure data. Further, it also enables approved applications in areas such as water-quality monitoring, infrastructure management, predictive maintenance, geospatial planning, digital twins and artificial intelligence-enabled analytics.