Chairman of the Joint Committee of Parliament on the Personal Data Protection Bill and senior BJP MP P.P. Chaudhary welcomed the Centre’s decision to withdraw the Bill from Parliament on Wednesday. He hoped that the fresh Bill would incorporate all the amendments and recommendations of the panel. The committee worked very hard to prepare the recommendations. “All the recommendations are valuable for the Bill and for the government,” he said.
Talking to The Hindu, Mr. Chaudhary said initially Justice Srikrishna committee recommended a draft Bill and a group of secretaries looked at it and referred it to the Union Cabinet. “After the Cabinet clearance, it was introduced in the Lok Sabha. There are about 100 clauses in the Bill. The committee held 77 meetings and considered the Bill clause by clause. We made about 93 recommendations and suggested about 100 amendments,” Mr. Chaudhary said. The panel had tabled its report in both the Houses on December 16, 2021.
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