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  • DPDP RULES 2025
  • Rules (1 – 3)
    • Rule 1: Short title and commencement. -
    • Rule 2: Definitions.
    • Rule 3: Notice given by Data Fiduciary to Data Principal.
  • Rules ( 4 – 5)
    • Rule 4: Registration and obligations of Consent Manager.
    • Rule 5: Processing for provision or issue of subsidy, benefit, service, certificate, licence or permit by State and its instrumentalities.—(
  • Rules (6 – 8)
    • Rule 6: Reasonable security safeguards.
    • Rule 7: Intimation of personal data breach.
    • Rule 8: Time period for specified purpose to be deemed as no longer being served.
  • Rules (9 – 12)
    • Rule 9: Contact information of person to answer questions about processing.
    • Rule 10: Verifiable consent for processing of personal data of child or of person with disability who has lawful guardian.
    • Rule 11: Exemptions from certain obligations applicable to processing of personal data of child
    • Rule 12: Additional obligations of Significant Data Fiduciary
  • Rules ( 13 – 15)
    • Rule 13: Rights of Data Principal.
    • Rule 14: Processing of personal data outside India.
    • Rule 15: Exemption from Act for research, archiving or statistical purposes.
  • Rule ( 16 – 18)
    • Rule 16: Appointment of Chairperson and other Members.
    • Rule 17: Salary, allowances and other terms and conditions of service of Chairperson and other Members.
    • Rule 18: Procedure for meetings of Board and authentication of its orders, directions and instruments.—(.
  • Rules ( 19 – 20)
    • Section 19: Functioning of Board as digital office.
    • Section 20: Terms and conditions of appointment and service of officers and employees of Board.
  • Rules ( 21 – 22)
    • Section 21: Appeal to Appellate Tribunal.
    • Section 22: Calling for information from Data Fiduciary or intermediary.
  • SCHEDULE I
    • Part A-Conditions of registration of Consent Manager | Part B-Obligations of Consent Manager
  • SCHEDULE II
    • Standards for processing of personal data by State and its instrumentalities under clause (b) of section 7 and for processing of personal data necessary for the purposes specified in clause (b) of sub-section (2) of section 17
  • SCHEDULE III
    • Table for Class of Data Fiduciaries| Purposes | Time period.
  • SCHEDULE IV
    • Part A -Classes of Data Fiduciaries in respect of whom provisions of sub-sections (1) and (3) of section 9 shall not apply | Part B - Purposes for which provisions of sub-sections (1) and (3) of section 9 shall not apply
  • SCHEDULE V
    • Terms and conditions of service of Chairperson and other Members
  • SCHEDULE VI
    • Terms and conditions of appointment and service of officers and employees of Board
  • SCHEDULE VII
    • Table for Purpose | Authorised person
  • Explanatory Note of MEITY
    • Explanatory note to Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025



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SCHEDULE I

Conditions of registration of Consent Manager


FIFTH SCHEDULE

[See rule 17]

Terms and conditions of service of Chairperson and other Members

1. Salary

(1) The Chairperson shall be entitled to receive a consolidated salary of rupees four lakh fifty thousand per month, without the facility of house and car.

(2) Every Member other than the Chairperson shall be entitled to receive a consolidated salary of rupees four lakh per month, without the facility of house and car.

2. Provident Fund

The Chairperson and every other Member shall be eligible to contribute to the Provident Fund of the Board, and the manner and terms and conditions applicable in this regard shall, mutatis mutandis, be the same as those applicable to other officers and employees of the Board for their Provident Fund.

3. Pension and gratuity

The Chairperson and every other Member shall not be entitled to payment of pension or gratuity for service rendered in the Board.

4. Travelling allowance

(1) The Chairperson and every other Member, while on transfer to join the Board, or on the expiry of her term with the Board for proceeding to her home town with family (including in respect of journey undertaken by her and her family), or on tour within India, shall be entitled to journey allowance, daily allowance, and reimbursement of expense on transportation of personal effects at such scales and rates as are applicable to an officer of the Central Government in the following level of the pay matrix, namely:

  • level 17, in the case of the Chairperson; and
  • level 15, in the case of every other Member.

(2) The Chairperson and every other Member may undertake tours outside India only in accordance with guidelines or instructions issued by the Central Government, and in respect of such tours, she shall be entitled to draw the same allowances as an officer of the Central Government, in the following level of the pay matrix, is entitled to draw, namely:

  • level 17, in the case of the Chairperson; and
  • level 15, in the case of every other Member.

5. Medical assistance

(1) The Chairperson and every other Member shall be entitled to such medical assistance as may be admissible to them under any group health insurance scheme of the Board for officers and employees of the Board and their eligible dependents.

(2) If the Chairperson or other Member has retired from Government service, or from the service of a public sector entity or a body corporate established by a Central Act, Provincial Act, or State Act, and there are a separate set of rules for the grant of medical assistance for such service, she may, in lieu of medical assistance under sub-paragraph (1), opt to be governed by such rules.

6. Leave

(1) The authority competent to sanction leave shall be the Central Government in respect of the Chairperson, and the Chairperson in respect of any other Member.

(2) The Chairperson and every other Member may avail of such kinds of leave as are admissible to a Government servant under sub-clause (i) of clause (a) and clause (b) of sub-rule (1) of rule 26, rules 27, 29, 30, and 40 to 43-C of the Central Civil Services (Leave) Rules, 1972 (hereinafter referred to as “Leave Rules”).

(3) Leave shall be subject to the conditions applicable to a Government servant under rules 7 to 11 and 22 to 25 of the Leave Rules, and the Central Government may, if satisfied that the operation of any of the said rules causes undue hardship in a particular case, by order relax the requirements of that rule to such extent and subject to such exceptions and conditions as it may consider necessary for dealing with the case in a just and equitable manner.

7. Leave travel concession

Leave travel concession shall be admissible to the Chairperson and every other Member in accordance with the provisions applicable to persons appointed to civil services and posts in connection with the affairs of the Union of India.

8. Other terms and conditions of service

(1) The Chairperson and every other Member shall ensure the absence of conflict of interest in the performance of the functions of her office and shall not have any such financial or other interests as are likely to prejudicially affect the performance of the functions of such office.

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