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ARTICLE · 28 JANUARY 2025

Draft DPDP Rules- What Should Businesses Do To Prepare

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After a long wait since August 2023 when the Parliament passed the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, on 3rd January 2025, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has published draft DPDP Rules for public consultation.

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Rakhi Shanker
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Akshay Bhatia
Akshay Bhatia
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Kartik Madaan

After a long wait since August 2023 when the Parliament passed the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 ("DPDP Act"), on 3rd January 2025, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has published draft DPDP Rules ("Draft Rules") for public consultation. The Draft Rules intend to clarify how the collection, processing and storage of personal data will be governed in India. We have analysed the Draft Rules and through this article, we aim to summarise the requirements and preparation needed for businesses to be compliant with DPDP Act and the Rules when these are enforced.

The Draft Rules do bring certain clarity on how the MeitY intends to roll out the new law though these are far from clarifying all the operative provisions of the Act and one must expect few amendments and further regulations that will truly launch the data privacy regime in India. The intention is to first set up the regulatory authority i.e. the Data Protection Board

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