{"id":835674,"date":"2024-07-22T10:03:27","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T04:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=835674"},"modified":"2024-07-22T10:03:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T04:33:27","slug":"govt-clears-consideration-of-private-members-bill-on-free-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/22\/govt-clears-consideration-of-private-members-bill-on-free-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt clears consideration of private member&#8217;s bill on free internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The government has cleared the consideration of a private member&#8217;s bill that seeks to grant every citizen the right to free internet access while ensuring equal access to people from backward and remote regions of the country. &#8220;No citizen shall be liable to pay any kind of fee or charges or expenses which may prevent him or her from accessing internet facilities,&#8221; the bill has proposed.<\/p>\n<p>While the bill was introduced in the Rajya Sabha by CPI(M) member V Sivadasan in December 2023, according to a bulletin issued by the Upper House of Parliament, Telecom Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has communicated to the Rajya Sabha secretary-general that the president has recommended the consideration of the bill to the House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The government has cleared the consideration of a private member&#8217;s bill that seeks to grant every citizen the right to free internet access while ensuring equal access to people from backward and remote regions of the country. &#8220;No citizen shall be liable to pay any kind of fee or charges or expenses which may prevent him or her from accessing internet facilities,&#8221; the bill has proposed. While the bill was introduced in the Rajya Sabha by CPI(M) member V Sivadasan in December 2023, according to a bulletin issued by the Upper House of Parliament, Telecom Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835674","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}