Consultation on the basics of Digital India Bill on Mar 9: MoS IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar

The Centre will hold a public consultation on the basic guiding principles and architecture of the upcoming Digital India Bill – the proposed successor to the Information Technology Act, 2000 – on March 9, Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar told The Indian Express.

“The government was waiting for the process for the data protection Bill, online gaming rules etc. to be completed. Now we can move to the most important piece of our larger framework for the Internet, the Digital India Bill, which will be a global standard law for the next decade,” Chandrasekhar said.