Union Minister Rajiv Chandrasekhar will come in EXPRESS ADDA today, will give opinion on Data Protection Bill and other issues
As a member of the Joint Committee on Data Protection Bill – 2019, Rajeev Chandrasekhar has played an important role. This bill has got the approval of the cabinet and it is going to come in the monsoon session of the Parliament.
Today, the Indian Express Group’s flagship program Express Adda, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar will interact with Group Executive Director Anant Goenka and National Business Editor of The Indian Express Anil Sasi. The portfolios that Rajiv Chandrasekhar is handling are considered very important for the Government of India ahead of the 2024 general elections.
Rajeev Chandrasekhar: A vocal voice of the changing times
Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology will speak on several important aspects at Express Adda, known as one of the loudest voices on various issues on digitalization in the changing times. He has been vocal about matters related to regulatory policy, consumer rights in cyberspace, spectrum allocation, net neutrality and the impact of AI (Artificial Intelligence) on India’s job market. In the field of IT, he was instrumental in introducing a $10 billion package to accelerate semiconductor production in India.
He also holds a prominent position in the drafting of the Digital India Bill. The bill will replace the decades-old Information Technology Act, 2000. It is expected that this bill will change the behavior of internet platforms, especially social media companies. , As Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, he has emphasized on transparency in Public Asset Management.
As a member of the Joint Committee on Data Protection Bill – 2019, Rajeev Chandrasekhar has played an important role. This bill has got the approval of the cabinet and it is going to come in the monsoon session of the Parliament.
Even before being appointed as the Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar was instrumental in framing some of the most influential technology regulations in India. 2013 As an MP, he filed a PIL arguing that Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 was unconstitutional. In a landmark judgment in 2015, the Supreme Court struck down this provision. He was one of the petitioners in the privacy case in the Supreme Court in 2017, when the right to privacy was declared a fundamental right.
Prior to Rajiv Chandrasekhar, the Express Adda has been attended by Union External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Housing and Urban Affairs and Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, strategist Prashant Kishor and oncologist and author Siddharth Mukherjee.
