Digital India Bill draft to be available in June first week: MoS IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar

The draft of the Digital India Bill, which seeks to replace the 22-year-old IT Act, will be available for public consultation in the first week of June, said Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology in Mumbai on Tuesday.

He was speaking at the second ‘pre-draft’ consultation and was hosted by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing. The first such consultation was held in Bengaluru on March 9. The minister reiterated, as he had in Bengaluru, that it is the responsibility of the platforms (social media intermediaries) to do their due diligence, and that he is genuinely considering “doing away with safe harbour”.