Ravi Shankar Prasad to ‘quickly’ table data protection bill, notify norms

NEW DELHI: Telecom and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that his top priorities would be to “quickly” take the data protection bill to Parliament and notify the proposed amendments to the intermediary guidelines.

Prasad, 64, was on Friday appointed as the new minister for telecommunications, while he retained the IT and law ministries in the second innings of the Modi government. He will formally assume office on Monday, June 3.

“I am very grateful to the PM for entrusting me once again with such responsibility. In IT, we will try to quickly get the data protection bill to the Parliament and also, notifying the intermediary guidelines,” Prasad told reporters Friday, soon after his portfolio was made public by the government.