Stakeholder consultation meetings on Digital India Bill start today

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) will on Thursday conduct the first stakeholder consultation meeting on the Digital India Bill to replace the 23-year-old Information Technology Act of 2000.

Minister of state for electronics and information technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar will be in Bengaluru on Thursday to meet industry representatives, lawyers, intermediaries and consumer groups among others to discuss the principles the proposed law will be based on and invite their inputs.