In an interesting development Meity appears to be taking further steps to implement DPDPA 2023 at the earliest.
In this direction, the Government has sought an opinion from the AG regarding the conflict with RTI Act.
NeGD has also taken the following two steps to support MeitY.
a) Initiated a Code development competition to invite private sector to develop an open source Consent Management system
b) Initiated steps to recruit a consultant for setting up of a Digital Office for Data Protection Board.
We shall keep the audience informed of any further developments in this regard.
Naavi