Govt in talks with industry to slash compliance time

The government is in talks with industry and other stakeholders to reduce the timeline for compliance with regard to the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act and Rules from the current 18 months, Union Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw (pictured) said on Monday.

- AASHISH ARYAN New Delhi, 17 November

"The first set of rules that we have published gives a very reasonable timeframe depending upon what the industry's ask was and what our thrust was. We are also in touch with the industry to further compress the timelines," Vaishnaw said.

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity), he said, had informed the industry and other stakeholders that since they had a compliance framework to adhere to rules published in different geographies, they should be able to replicate the same in India.