Data Insights at IDEAS is envisaged as a research centre with a mission to inculcate aculture of data-centric research, teaching and learning at the IDEAS office. The Centre’saffiliates will contribute to writing data-driven outputs, design and develop courses ondata structures, methods, analysis and data-based research and communication, andmentor students for thesis and capstone projects, and collaborate with other facultiesand researchers in IDEAS for development of publications and data-driven proposals. Asit evolves, it will build a repository of diverse datasets accessible to students and faculty,and will provide guidance on usage. In addition to this, it will build an abridged list ofvarious data sources and metadata that is essential to study discourses of socio-economic development in India and beyond.