New Delhi, Sep 18 (PTI) The Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) rules are ready and will be published in the next 10 days, IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Thursday.
The minister said the rules had followed an extensive consultation process.
“The DPDP rules are ready, about to be published in a few days from now,” Vaishnaw said, confirming that the rules will be released by September 28.
The minister was speaking during a pre-event conference for the AI Impact Summit 2026, which India will host in February.
“We will first release the rules, then we will be releasing the complete, comprehensive FAQs, and the body that will be governing the DPDP Act will be set up, it will be fully digital…the entire framework, portal, workflow, process flow, everything is completed,” Vaishnaw said on Thursday.
The government’s approach all along has been consultative, he said, emphasising that extensive discussions have been held with stakeholders on the rules and concerns.
“There was a group of people from the press who had some doubts, so we engaged deeply with them, we understood their concerns, explained the thought process, and then only proceeded with publication of the rules,” he said.
The much-awaited rules are key to the operationalisation of the Data Protection Act.
The government, in January this year, released the draft of Digital Personal Data Protection Rules that proposed to make parents’ verifiable consent and identification mandatory for the creation of a child’s user account on online or social media platforms, and also mooted possible data localisation requirements for specified personal data.
Further, parents’ identity and age will also have to be validated and verified through voluntarily provided identity proof “issued by an entity entrusted by law or the government”, said the draft rules circulated in January.
A major – and a surprise – takeaway from the draft rules at that time, according to industry experts, was the aspect of localisation and additional oversight on cross-border data sharing in specified cases.
The government has maintained that the draft data protection rules create a balance between regulation and innovation while protecting citizen rights. PTI MBI MBI BAL BAL
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