Hon’ble Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) Sh. P. D. Rai launched the first Open Data Portal using OGD Platform Software as a Service (SaaS) (https://sikkim.data.gov.in) for Sikkim Government on 10th June 2016 at Gangtok, Sikkim. A workshop on Sikkim Open Government Data Portal was organized fromJune 10th to 18th 2016 at AATI Conference Hall, Gangtok, Sikkim for Chief Data Officers and Data Contributors from selected State Departments by IT Department, Govt. of Sikkim in association with Open Government Data Platform Team of NIC Officials from Department of Rural Management & Development, Department of Health, Department of Economics and Statistics (Monitoring & Evaluation),Department of Human Resource Development, IT Department, Department of Agriculture, Gangtok Municipal Corporation and Cyber Village attended the workshop. Awareness and Training Sessions on Open Data Portal and its various features were organized. More details are available at the ‘Events’ section of OGD Platform (https://data.gov.in).