Unified Data Exchange: Accelerating India's Data Ecosystem

India has witnessed extensive and rapid digital transformation of the national economy and governance systems over the last decade or so. With the growing national data ecosystem, a crucial requirement has emerged for enabling both government and private stakeholders to share, discover and use data, metadata and allied artifacts through an interoperable, robust, secure and trusted digital infrastructure. This short paper presents an overview of the aims, objectives, approach as well as key features to develop a scalable sector-agnostic unified data exchange solution to cater to various G2G, G2X and X2X use cases. Upon completion of the pilot phase of development with the approach detailed in this short-paper, the project team is currently working with key government stakeholders to validate the developed functionalities and gather further requirements.