data.gov.in — Chemicals & Petrochemicals Category

It is the chemicals and petrochemicals community topic of India's Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India - the Digital India initiative designed and hosted by the National Informatics Centre - and the shortest honest inventory of what the Indian state publishes about its own chemical economy. As of 21 August 2026 the shelf holds 68 chart-based visualizations paginated across six listing pages, plus one blog post, every entry attributed to the OGD PMU Team.

The titles read like a syllabus for the sector. Category-wise Details of Production of Major Petroleum Products during 2024-25. Product-wise Export of Major Chemicals (Alkali Chemicals) during 2024-25. Imports split across pesticides and insecticides, dyes and pigments and major organic chemicals. Production and export series for petrochemicals of synthetic fibres and yarn, fibre intermediates and synthetic rubber elastomers. Year-wise sales of approved products under the PLI scheme for pharmaceuticals. Each entry is a rendered chart with its own page, which means the unit of value is the plotted series - and Datadory resolves those series into typed rows so the shelf becomes a dataset instead of a browsing exercise.

Three entries straight from the top of the shelf:

title : Year-wise Total Sales of Approved Category 1 Eligible Products under the PLI Scheme
        for Pharmaceuticals from 2022-23 to 2024-25
author: OGD PMU Team          community: data.gov.in
date  : 2026-08-13            views: 108

title : Category-wise Details of Production of Major Petroleum Products during 2024-25
author: OGD PMU Team          community: data.gov.in
date  : 2026-07-09            views: 98

title : Product-wise Export of Major Chemicals (Alkali Chemicals) during 2024-25
author: OGD PMU Team          community: data.gov.in
date  : 2026-07-06            views: 118

Read them as one format doing three jobs. The first turns a policy programme into a countable series - sales of approved products under the production-linked incentive scheme for pharmaceuticals, year by year from 2022-23. The second is a production breakdown of major petroleum products for fiscal 2024-25, the kind of denominator work market sizings usually fake with global ratios. The third is a product-wise export panel for alkali chemicals. Notice the author column: identical on all three, because the entire shelf carries a single publishing signature. Notice the view counts too - 98 to 118. These charts are public, well-formed and almost unread, which is precisely the arbitrage.

Six columns define every entry, and together they cover identification, provenance and demand: what the chart measures, who published it, when it landed and how many readers it has drawn.

Beyond the listing fields, the chart-level series behind each visualization - labels, units, period columns - arrive as additional fields on request, resolved and typed with your sample wherever the underlying numbers support it. Depth varies entry to entry, which is exactly what a scoped sample settles before anything reaches production.

Geography - India, at national level with product-level breakdowns. Alkali chemicals, pesticides and insecticides, dyes and pigments, major organic chemicals, petroleum products, petrochemical polymers, fibres and elastomers each get their own panels, so a family-level view of the sector needs one shelf rather than a departmental scavenger hunt.

Temporal - current entries are named for Indian fiscal years 2022-23 through 2024-25, with publication dates clustering May through August 2026 and the snapshot taken 21 August 2026. Remember the fiscal frame runs April to March: a chart titled during 2024-25 covers April 2024 through March 2025, and mixing it blindly with calendar-year series is the classic unforced error.

Granularity - one visualization per product group and indicator. A chart per slice, deliberately narrow, which keeps each unit clean but means building a sector-wide panel is an assembly job across entries rather than a single wide table.

API, files, or your warehouse. Daily, weekly, or hourly.

You pick the channel and set the cadence - and change it when your models change. Every delivery ships the complete field dictionary above, sample rows for validation and the coverage profile, with the chart-level series behind your chosen product groups resolved into typed columns rather than arriving as pictures. A sample goes out first, cut to the families you actually care about.

• Market sizing for Indian chemical segments - Anchor segment estimates on production and export charts published by the Indian state itself, instead of extrapolating global ratios onto a market nobody has measured.
• Import and export mix tracking - Product-wise panels for alkali chemicals, pesticides and insecticides, dyes and pigments and major organics show which families India buys versus sells, family by family.
• Production and price context panels - Category-wise petroleum product production sits beside price-themed series, giving demand-side and cost-side context in one shelf.
• Policy-scheme uptake measurement - Year-wise sales of approved products under the PLI scheme for pharmaceuticals turn a policy headline into a countable series from 2022-23 forward.
• Citation-grade sourcing - Every figure traces to ministry-owned content with the publishing team and date on the entry - the citation chain client decks and filings ask for.
• Discovery seeding for India pipelines - A stable six-field listing makes a cheap first layer that decides which product groups deserve continuous ingestion.

Market researchers and consultants size Indian chemical segments from official charts and quote the publishing team on every figure. Investors and quant researchers diligence India-facing exposure against government-published production and trade series instead of vendor decks; see market researchers use cases for the workflow. Developers and data-product builders get a stable six-field listing that behaves identically across all 68 entries - rare in government listings and worth building on; compare developers builders use cases. Journalists, academics and students cite ministry-owned figures with author and date attached. Competitive-intel teams read the shelf as an attention map: which product groups earn new charts is often the earliest public hint of where Indian capacity is heading.

Four things, stated plainly.

First, this is a shelf of charts, not a merged master table. Each entry plots one product group and indicator; a sector-wide panel is assembled across entries, and chart-level depth varies until a scoped sample confirms it row by row.

Second, 68 is a count of visualizations, not of distinct measurement programmes. Product families recur across fiscal years, so treat the shelf as a breadth map of Indian official chemical statistics rather than 68 unrelated sources.

Third, the calendar is fiscal, April to March. Align before comparing with January-to-December sources, or growth rates will quietly disagree.

Fourth, small readership is not small substance. View counts between 98 and 118 on sampled entries say these charts are under-read, not unreliable - the content beneath them is owned by the respective ministries and departments, which is exactly what makes it citable.

Of the 1,744 datasets Datadory catalogs across 159 viable industries, twelve cover specialty chemicals, and this category is the India play among them - official domestic series where most of the shelf's neighbours go regulatory or global. The companions:

• India PPAC - Petroleum & Petrochemical Production Statistics - monthly continuity for petroleum product volumes, deeper than a fiscal-year chart.
• ChemAnalyst - Chemical Price Database - commercial price movements for roughly 1,100 products across 40+ countries, the pricing layer this shelf only sketches.
• US Economic Census - Chemical Manufacturing (NAICS 325) - the American counterfactual: establishment counts and shipments for the world's other large chemical economy.
• EPA TSCA Chemical Substance Inventory - 70,774 substances in US commerce, the regulatory universe above the trade flows charted here.
• OECD eChemPortal - hazard and property records pooled from 34 government databases, for the substances behind the product groups.

Start from the Specialty Chemicals industry hub, the ranked best specialty chemicals datasets shortlist, or the background reading in the data.gov catalog glossary entry.