The Press Club of India had submitted a joint memorandum to the Ministry on June 25, 2025 . After a meeting with the Secretary of MeitY, the Press Council had again submitted a list of 35 questions on August 23, 2025 seeking clarifications. Subsequent to the release of the rules on November 13, 2025, a discussion has again ensued on the points raised by the Press Council of India.
MeitY after supposedly considering all the 6915 comments received from public final the rules which were released on November 13, 2025.
Now the Editor’s Guild has raised a warning that the DPDPA will cripple journalism. In a statement released by DIGIPUB, the body of journalists has urged the Union Government to “Commence a reform Process for DPDPA 2023” and “DPDPAR-2025″to restore clear statutory exemption for journalistic and public interest processing. It has also asked for amendments to provisions that undermine media freedom, the right to information and integrity of the digital public sphere.
The response from the MeitY is awaited.
FDPPI would like other industry segments also to study the rules and collate their views through a SIG (Special interest Group) being formed by FDPPI. In particular we would like the SME sector to put together their views and provide suggestions of how they can be assisted in being compliant to DPDPA.
Naavi
