The Work Programme of the Indian Palaeo Data Base (IPDB) provides a comprehensive roadmap for developing India’s first national repository dedicated to palaeoenvironmental data. It focuses on systematically acquiring, standardising, and integrating palaeo-records generated across diverse ecosystems such as the Himalayas, Indo-Gangetic plains, peninsular plateaus, arid interiors, coastal wetlands, and deltaic mangrove systems. The programme begins with the identification and compilation of existing datasets from published literature, dissertations, and institutional archives, while actively encouraging contributions from laboratories, universities, and research institutes. A major component of the programme is the development of India-specific metadata standards aligned with global frameworks such as Neotoma, NOAA-Paleo, and PANGAEA, ensuring uniform documentation of site characteristics, analytical methods, chronology, taxonomy, and proxy-specific details. Each dataset undergoes rigorous technical checks, followed by expert validation to guarantee scientific accuracy and reproducibility. The work programme also emphasises the creation of a secure, scalable, and user-friendly digital infrastructure capable of hosting advanced search tools, GIS-based visualisation, map interfaces, and download options that support interdisciplinary research. By integrating datasets across proxies—pollen, spores, phytoliths, diatoms, foraminifera, geochemistry, radiocarbon dates, and sediment sequences—IPDB enables high-resolution reconstructions of Holocene monsoon variability, sea-level change, ecosystem transitions, and extreme climate events. Simultaneously, the programme prioritises capacity building through specialised workshops, training sessions, and skill-development modules in data curation, palaeoinformatics, and reproducible research practices. Outreach initiatives strengthen connections with environmental agencies, climate missions, conservation planners, and disaster management authorities, ensuring that long-term palaeo-records inform policy and societal needs. To maintain long-term sustainability, the work programme promotes national and international partnerships, continuous technological upgrades, and systematic expansion of dataset coverage across India's ecological zones. Through this integrated and forward-looking approach, the IPDB Work Programme aims to establish a world-class palaeoscience data ecosystem for the nation.