{"id":1001836,"date":"2026-04-09T07:44:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001836"},"modified":"2026-04-09T08:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:36:18","slug":"meity-meets-intermediaries-civil-society-groups-on-draft-it-rule-changes-says-govt-open-to-suggestions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/09\/meity-meets-intermediaries-civil-society-groups-on-draft-it-rule-changes-says-govt-open-to-suggestions\/","title":{"rendered":"MeitY meets intermediaries, civil society groups on draft IT rule changes; says govt open to suggestions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid a public outcry over draft IT rules amendment, the Ministry of Electronics and Information &amp; Technology (Meity) on Tuesday met intermediaries and civil society groups to hear their concerns, with IT Secretary S Krishnan saying the ministry is &#8220;open-minded&#8221; and will examine all suggestions. <\/p>\n<p>Krishnan indicated that the government may extend the April 14 deadline for receiving feedback on proposed IT rules amendments and will consider industry and stakeholder views before finalising any changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid a public outcry over draft IT rules amendment, the Ministry of Electronics and Information &amp; Technology (Meity) on Tuesday met intermediaries and civil society groups to hear their concerns, with IT Secretary S Krishnan saying the ministry is &#8220;open-minded&#8221; and will examine all suggestions. Krishnan indicated that the government may extend the April 14 deadline for receiving feedback on proposed IT rules amendments and will consider industry and stakeholder views before finalising any changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}