DoT invitations Opposition leaders’ views on telecom invoice

Express News Service

NEW DELHI:  In a first-of-its-kind outreach, the Department of Telecommunications has invited leaders of the Opposition for his or her solutions on the brand new draft Indian Telecommunication Bill 2022. The Opposition leaders are being straight invited by the Minister of Electronics and Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw, to his workplace.

Sharing this with this newspaper, the Union minister mentioned, “We are speaking to almost all prominent leaders of the Opposition and other leaders over the newly proposed telecom bill and will be taking their suggestions and have subsequent discussions as well.”

On Monday, senior chief of Trinamool Congress and MP of Rajya Sabha, Mahua Moitra, visited the ministry workplace. The TMC chief additionally raised many factors on varied provisions of the Bill and her preliminary doubts have been additionally addressed to. “The bill has been drafted in simple language so that anyone is able to understand its provisions. It is being prepared to make the telecom sector consumer-and people-friendly”, the minister mentioned. Besides this, the minister claimed that feedback from solutions from the general public and specialists have additionally been invited by the ministry.

Vaishnaw added that Congress senior chief Shashi Tharoor has additionally been invited to debate the professionals and cons of the draft Telcom Bill earlier than it’s launched within the subsequent Parliament winter session. “I have spoken to Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and invited his suggestions as well but he will come post the Congress presidential elections”, Vaishnaw mentioned. 

Tharoor is presently working for Congress presidential elections. The invoice was issued by the DoT two weeks again and has since then been criticised for rising the regulatory burden, enabling surveillance and ignoring previous suggestions. One of the provisions of the Bill that has been closely criticised is that it permits for Internet shutdowns to be imposed within the nation which mirrors the language used within the colonial-era Indian Telegraph Act of 1885.

Through the Indian Telecommunication Bill, 2022, the Centre goals to consolidate and amend the prevailing legal guidelines governing the availability, growth, growth and operation of telecommunication companies, telecom networks and infrastructure, along with the project of spectrum. 

NEW DELHI:  In a first-of-its-kind outreach, the Department of Telecommunications has invited leaders of the Opposition for his or her solutions on the brand new draft Indian Telecommunication Bill 2022. The Opposition leaders are being straight invited by the Minister of Electronics and Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw, to his workplace.

Sharing this with this newspaper, the Union minister mentioned, “We are speaking to almost all prominent leaders of the Opposition and other leaders over the newly proposed telecom bill and will be taking their suggestions and have subsequent discussions as well.”

On Monday, senior chief of Trinamool Congress and MP of Rajya Sabha, Mahua Moitra, visited the ministry workplace. The TMC chief additionally raised many factors on varied provisions of the Bill and her preliminary doubts have been additionally addressed to. “The bill has been drafted in simple language so that anyone is able to understand its provisions. It is being prepared to make the telecom sector consumer-and people-friendly”, the minister mentioned. Besides this, the minister claimed that feedback from solutions from the general public and specialists have additionally been invited by the ministry.

Vaishnaw added that Congress senior chief Shashi Tharoor has additionally been invited to debate the professionals and cons of the draft Telcom Bill earlier than it’s launched within the subsequent Parliament winter session. “I have spoken to Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and invited his suggestions as well but he will come post the Congress presidential elections”, Vaishnaw mentioned. 

Tharoor is presently working for Congress presidential elections. The invoice was issued by the DoT two weeks again and has since then been criticised for rising the regulatory burden, enabling surveillance and ignoring previous suggestions. One of the provisions of the Bill that has been closely criticised is that it permits for Internet shutdowns to be imposed within the nation which mirrors the language used within the colonial-era Indian Telegraph Act of 1885.

Through the Indian Telecommunication Bill, 2022, the Centre goals to consolidate and amend the prevailing legal guidelines governing the availability, growth, growth and operation of telecommunication companies, telecom networks and infrastructure, along with the project of spectrum.