Ahead of Parliament monsoon session, Centre calls for all-party meeting on July 19

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Lok Sabha elections next year.  The Centre approved a draft of the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill on Wednesday, effectively paving the way for India's first privacy law. The proposed legislation is likely to be tabled during the upcoming monsoon session of Parliament. The proposed legislation stipulates consent before collecting personal data and provides for stiff penalties of as much as ₹500 crore on persons and companies that fail to prevent data breaches including accidental disclosures, sharing, altering, or destroying personal data.

The Narendra Modi-led government had approved the draft of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill 2023. The monsoon session of Parliament comes at a time Prime Minister Modi made a strong pitch for a Uniform Civil Code and amid moves to step up consultations on the issue. The session is expected to commence in the old Parliament Building and later move to the new building.

The new building was inaugurated by Modi on May 28. The monsoon session of Parliament 2023 will be spread across 23 days and will have 17 sittings. During the session, the central government is likely to bring a bill to replace the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Ordinance.

The Ordinance effectively nullified the Supreme Court judgment that gave the Delhi government greater legislative and administrative control over "services" matter. The Centre's ordinance was introduced after the Supreme Court, in an order, handed over the transfer control of bureaucrats in Delhi to the elected government. The order excluded control over the police, public order and land.