India Policy Digital Tender

The Government has recently introduced National Policy on Electronics NPE and National Policy on Software Products NPSP in 2019 for the growing digital economy. The details are available on Ministry of Electronics Information Technologys website httpsmeity.gov.in.Further a draft National e-Commerce policy has been prepared and placed for comments in public domain. The draft National e-Commerce policy has been prepared to create a facilitative regulatory environment for growth of e-commerce sector in India and to leverage access to data such that data of Indians can be used for the growth of digital economy in India. The policy establishes strategies which aim to i empower domestic entrepreneurs and encourage Make in India ii safeguard interests of the consumers iii ensure creation of jobs in the digital sphere in the times to comeiv promote domestic research and development in digital innovation and v prevent misuse of data while maintaining the spirit of existing regulations.The Government had constituted a committee of expert on data protection chaired by Justice Retd B.N. Srikrishna Supreme Court of India to study various issues relating to data protection and come out with the Data Protection Bill. The Srikrishnacommittee has brought out a draft Personal Data Protection Bill PDPB. The framework seeks to put in place a culture of privacy by design and promoting concepts such as consent framework purpose limitation storage limitation and data minimization among various other privacy-oriented concepts. Wide-ranging consultations have been conducted on the recommendations of the committee with a view to finalizing the draft legislation.