In order to cater to the contribution of the datasets from offices/organization under the Ministries/ Departments, the SL NSDI office nominates a number of Data Contributors who would be responsible in contributing the datasets along with their metadata. Data Contributor could be an officer of the Ministry/Department who would be responsible for his/her unit/division. The responsibilities of the Data Contributor are as follows: Responsible for ensuring quality and correctness datasets of his/her unit/division. Preparing and contributing the metadata in the predefined format for the datasets.