New Delhi [India]Sep 7 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday assured that a new bill on data privacy will be ready “soon” and the Information Technology Minister is working diligently on it.
Ashwini Vaishnav is the Union Minister of Information and Technology.
“We will soon have a new Data Privacy Bill, which will be a product of consultations and will address every such concern most of us have on the Privacy Bill,” she said.
Sitharaman said this while addressing the India Ideas Summit organized by the US-India Business Council here today.
The Central Government had last month withdrew the Personal Data Protection Bill 2019 from the Lok Sabha several months after it was introduced.
Minister of Railways, Communications, Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnav had said that the Bill was withdrawn as the Joint Parliamentary Committee had recommended 81 amendments to the 99 Sections Bill.
“Also it made 12 key recommendations. Hence, the bill has been withdrawn and a new bill will be introduced for public consultation,” he had then tweeted.
Further, in his address to the US-India Business Council, he said that jobs, equitable wealth distribution and ensuring that India is still on the path of growth are some of his top priorities.
However, according to him, inflation is not because it was brought down to “some manageable levels”.
To put things in context, India’s retail inflation fell to 6.71 per cent in July, the lowest level in five months, according to data from the National Statistical Office (NSO), helped by easing food and oil prices. Is. For the seventh month in a row, the Reserve Bank of India’s upper tolerance band is 6 per cent.
Retail inflation in the previous month-June was 7.01 per cent in June. Inflation data for August is expected early next week. (ANI)
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