The Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Personal Data Protection Bill has adopted its draft report and will be tabled in the Parliament in the Winter Session, confirmed Rajya Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh, Lok Sabha MP Manish Tewari. Earlier in the day, Ramesh and other Committee members sat down for a meeting to consider and adopt the draft report prepared, according to the Lok Sabha website. The two meetings were scheduled from 11 am to 1 pm, and the second from 2 pm onwards. Ramesh in a tweet said, "Finally, it is done. The Joint Committee of Parliament has adopted its report on the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019. There are dissent notes, but that is in the best spirit of parliamentary democracy. Sadly, such examples are few and far between under the Modi regime." https://twitter.com/ManishTewari/status/1462701622979530757 https://twitter.com/Jairam_Ramesh/status/1462657040627634177 The committee has been deliberating the draft PDP Bill since 2019, and is expected to submit its report during the winter session of the parliament. The much-delayed report of the bill was expected to be tabled during the previous session of the parliament. However, after a change in committee leadership and memberships, the JPC asked for an extension till the winter session. Under a newly-appointed chairperson, the JPC revisited the bill to reportedly discuss new recommendations to the bill. Since the landmark Puttaswamy judgement in 2017, the government has been under an obligation to pass legislation to protect Indians’ personal data. Various aspects of the bill such as setting up a data protection authority, localisation requirements…
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Joint Parliamentary Committee on PDP Bill adopts its draft report
The meeting is being held a week before the winter session of the parliament is set to commence.
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