IT Act to be amended in a month

“We have already put up draft rules of the IT (Amendment) Act on the website and have also received comments ... we are trying to finalise the rules within a month,” Department of Information Technology (DIT) Secretary R Chandrashekhar said.

Talking about the meeting of the IT task force constituted to suggest steps for stimulating growth in the IT, ITeS and electronics hardware manufacturing industry, Chandrashekar said, “The task force will meet in September. We have suggested that there should be a set of recommendations with achievable goals.”