SOURCES & METHOD

The source belongs
beside the claim.

This selected timeline follows official publications. A press headline, repost or search result is not a substitute for the underlying document.

Three dates. Three different questions.

Published: the date on the Gazette issue. Effective: the commencement stated in the instrument, which may be phased. Checked: when this site inspected the source. The checked date is not a legal effective date.

Where MeitY’s listing date differs from the Gazette issue or instrument date, the record keeps them separate. The December corrigendum is one such example.

What is covered?

Six selected publications: the 2023 Act, the November 2025 commencement and Rules, two Board notifications, and the December 2025 English-text corrigendum. Checked 30 September 2026. This is not a claim that every relevant publication has been collected.

Sources were reviewed against the MeitY Act and policies listing and the PDFs below. External pages may change or become unavailable. The summaries here remain educational; no independent legal review is claimed.

What gets labelled as uncertain?

Unverified appointments, operational readiness, exhaustive coverage and implications for a particular organisation. For comparisons, we display only checked wording pairs. A missing comparison is shown as unavailable, not generated from a summary.

G.S.R. 892(E) · Correction

The Rules receive wording corrections.

Gazette publication
11 DEC 2025
Effective / commencement
Specified corrections to G.S.R. 846(E); commencement still follows rule 1.
Checked
30 September 2026
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G.S.R. 846(E) · Rules

The final Rules set out the implementation detail.

Gazette publication
13 NOV 2025
Effective / commencement
Rules 1, 2 and 17–21: publication; rule 4: one year; rules 3, 5–16, 22 and 23: eighteen months.
Checked
30 September 2026
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G.S.R. 843(E) · Commencement

The Act receives a phased commencement schedule.

Gazette publication
13 NOV 2025
Effective / commencement
Three groups, measured from publication. Check the clause covering the provision you need.
Checked
30 September 2026
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G.S.R. 844(E) · Institutional

A notification establishes the Data Protection Board.

Gazette publication
13 NOV 2025
Effective / commencement
From publication in the Official Gazette.
Checked
30 September 2026
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G.S.R. 845(E) · Institutional

The Board’s composition is specified.

Gazette publication
13 NOV 2025
Effective / commencement
The notification specifies composition; it is not an appointment list.
Checked
30 September 2026
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Act No. 22 of 2023 · Act

The Digital Personal Data Protection Act is published.

Gazette publication
11 AUG 2023
Effective / commencement
Phased by the later commencement notification, G.S.R. 843(E).
Checked
30 September 2026
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