{"id":799531,"date":"2022-09-23T11:44:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T11:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2022\/09\/23\/new-telecom-bill-likely-to-be-introduced-in-6-10-months-ashwini-vaishnaw\/"},"modified":"2022-09-23T11:44:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T11:44:35","slug":"new-telecom-bill-likely-to-be-introduced-in-6-10-months-ashwini-vaishnaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2022\/09\/23\/new-telecom-bill-likely-to-be-introduced-in-6-10-months-ashwini-vaishnaw\/","title":{"rendered":"New telecom bill likely to be introduced in 6-10 months: Ashwini Vaishnaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new telecom bill is expected to be in place in 6-10 months but the government is not in a hurry, communications minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Basis consultation process, we will create final draft. That draft will then go through committee processes of Parliament. Then it has to go (to) Parliament. I see a timeline of 6-10 months but we are not in a hurry,&#8221; Vaishnaw said when asked about a timeline for implementation of the final bill.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Telecommunications has set the deadline of October 20 on the draft bill.<\/p>\n<p>The bill seeks to replace three laws: the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885, the Indian Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1933 and the Telegraph Wires (Unlawful Possession) Act, 1950.<\/p>\n<p>However, with a view to ensuring smooth transition to the new framework and avoid any possible disruption, the bill provides for continuity of actions taken under the repealed laws.<\/p>\n<p>It also provides that rules under the repealed laws would continue till such time that new rules are formulated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new telecom bill is expected to be in place in 6-10 months but the government is not in a hurry, communications minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Friday. &#8220;Basis consultation process, we will create final draft. That draft will then go through committee processes of Parliament. Then it has to go (to) Parliament. I see a timeline of 6-10 months but we are not in a hurry,&#8221; Vaishnaw said when asked about a timeline for implementation of the final bill. The Department of Telecommunications has set the deadline of October 20 on the draft bill. The bill seeks to replace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799531","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}