Guidelines For Contractual Terms For Cloud Service Providers

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India has issued guidelines in the last week of March earlier this year, for government departments on contractual terms related to cloud services ("Guidelines"). These Guidelines are framed to promote the government's MeghRaj Policy or Cloud Initiative undertaken in order to utilise and harness the benefits of cloud computing and provide strategic direction for adoption of cloud services by the government. The Guidelines provide draft clauses that have to be included in such contracts with cloud service providers ("CSPs").

We take a look at some of the salient aspects brought about in the Guidelines as follows: