Govt likely to take 6 months for notifying new rules for Telecom Act

Rules falling under the Telecommunications Act, 2013, will be in place in the next six months, senior sources at the Department of Telecommunications have said.

They partially came into effect on Wednesday,

Without the rules in place, many of the provisions of the Act can’t be enforced, they added.

A case in point, inter-ministerial consultations with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) will decide on the rules for intercepting and detaining messages.