MeitY launches GAC which will investigate users complaints about content in social media
- ByStartupStory | March 1, 2023
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has launched a digital platform titled Grievance Appellate Committee (GAC), which will serve as a grievances redressal mechanism to all the problems big and small that are in respect to digital citizens.
The Grievance Appellate Committee (GAC), which will investigate users’ complaints about content and other issues, was established on Tuesday by Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar in an effort to give millions of social media users in India more influence and a safe platform to engage.
Chandrasekhar on Tuesday said, “It is indeed a very fitting day because the PM launched a MeitY webinar today where he talked about ease of living through technology. He mentioned faceless taxation as an example of how technology is transforming lives and making lives easier for the citizens.”
PM Modi in his address to the post-Budget webinar which is an effort by the Modi government to discuss various strategies and ideas on how to implement the initiatives announced in the Union Budget 2023, talked about how India of the 21st century is constantly empowering its citizens with the use of technology. He mentioned that the recent budgets of the past few years have focussed on ease of living for people with the help of technology.
The subject of the webinar was ‘Ease of Living using Technology’.
Prime Minister Modi elaborated on the role of technology in this by giving examples of One Nation One Ration Card and JAM (Jan Dhan-Aadhar-Mobile) trinity, Arogya Setu and CoWin App, railway reservation and Common Service Centers. With these decisions, the Prime Minister said that the government has enhanced the ease of living of the citizens.
The PM also highlighted that people are happy about the ease of communication with the government, as with the help of technology, concerns are quicker to reach and vis-a-vis quick resolution from the government’s side.
Last month, Meity also announced new amendments, which will require social media intermediaries to remove content which is declared as fake by the government’s fact checking mechanisms.
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