Srija, GadamsettiDr. Srijoni Sen, - Supervisor2023-10-172023-10-172023-10-17https://dans.nls.ac.in/handle/123456789/1264The modern-day citizens of the country generate immense amounts of data in just one day. This data is very valuable to not just private parties but also to the government of India. As the data economy booms in the country, the governance of that data becomes a deciding factor on how that data is leveraged. In the recent years in India, plenty of policy documents released in India with the intention of governing data. Understanding the thematic direction of these policy documents can help many stakeholders predict the economic, technological and regulatory changes in the country. This study, thus, attempts to understand the policy priorities that emerge out of these documents and whether these documents interact with each other cohesively in order to achieve their goals. The findings of the study indicate that privacy, economic potential and productivity emerge as major concepts in the policy documents under study. They also indicate that there is a lot of room for improvement in building policy coherence amongst the given documents. Based on the findings, the researcher has made some policy recommendations. Key words: Data, data governance, data privacy, data security, economic value of data, policy coherence.enData Governance; Data Privacy; Data Security; Economic Value of DataThe concepts, coherence and cohesiveness of data governance policies in IndiaBook