The Joint Committee of Parliament inspecting the Personal Data Protection Bill was given an extension until the monsoon session to submit its report.
The JCP was constituted in Lok Sabha in December 2019 and was anticipated to submit its report within the finances session.
Meenakshi Lekhi of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) moved a movement searching for extension as much as the monsoon session of parliament for the 30-member panel to submit its report. Currently, there are two vacancies within the committee.
“That this House does extend up to the first week of monsoon session 2021 of Parliament the time for the presentation of the report of the Joint Committee on the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019,” the movement learn. It was handed by a voice vote.
This is for the fourth time the committee’s tenure has been prolonged, sources mentioned. Earlier, it was given an extension on March 23, 2020, September 23, 2020, and February 9, 2021.
The panel has 19 members from Lok Sabha and 9 from Rajya Sabha at the moment.
The Personal Data Protection Bill seeks to manage using particular person data by the federal government and personal corporations.
So far the committee has held conferences with Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Google, Airtel, Jio, Ola, Uber, Google, Paytm amongst different corporations.
