Rules for the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 will come out in the coming month, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Wednesday. Mr. Chandrasekhar was speaking at a “Digital India Dialogues” event, where industry representatives from firms that will have to comply with the requirements of the DPDP Act were present.
The Act itself has not been notified, even though it received the President’s assent after being passed in the monsoon session of Parliament. Different portions of the Act will come into effect after the IT Ministry passes notifications to give them force and prescribe further rules. “We will also work on forming the Data Protection Board [of India] in the upcoming month,” Mr. Chandrasekhar said in a press note, referring to the adjudicatory body that will be set up to hear complaints on data breaches.
