Union Cabinet clears Personal Data Protection Bill. Major takeaways from Cabinet meet

The Union Cabinet has cleared the Personal Data Protection Bill for introduction in the current session of Parliament.

Addressing the media, Prakash Javadekar said that it is a very important Bill. “The Bill deals with data protection of citizens. It will look at how the interests of Bharat and the interests of everybody is handled,” he said.

The Bill could be introduced in either house of the Parliament in the current Winter Session which will conclude on December 13.


The Bill will provide details on collection and storage of personal data and its usage, individual users' consent and the penalties for misuse of data.

The draft bill, titled The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018 was modelled by an expert group headed by former Supreme Court judge BN Srikrishna.

In an earlier chat with ET, Justice Srikrishna also called for speedy enactment of the proposed personal data protection bill.

Here are all the other decisions taken today in the Union Cabinet:
1. Approved Bharat Bond Exchange Traded Fund
2. Approves the withdrawal of Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Second Amendment) Bill, 2019
3. Conversion of three Sanskrit deemed to be Universities into Central Universities
4. Conversion of three Sanskrit deemed to be Universities into Central Universities
5. Union Cabinet approves land monetisation at Pragati Maidan (Delhi) to build a 5-star hotel