New Delhi: The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has shortlisted six companies, including Jio Platforms, in the first round of its ‘Code for Consent: The DPDP Innovation Challenge’- a government initiative aimed at building Consent Management Systems (CMS) under the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023.
The competition, managed by the National e-Governance Division (NeGD) in collaboration with MeitY Startup Hub, is structured to identify viable technology solutions that can support user consent mechanisms in compliance with the new data protection law.
The five other selected companies are Baldor Technologies (IDfy), VertexTech Labs (Redacto), Zoop (Quagga Tech), Concur – Consent Manager, and Aurelion Future Forge. These entities will now advance to the coding phase, where they are expected to build working prototypes of their proposed CMS solutions over a three-month period.
During this phase, the solutions will be evaluated through sprint-based assessments that measure functionality, usability, compliance, and scalability. The development process is guided by a Business Requirements Document (BRD) issued by the ministry, outlining system capabilities such as real-time consent verification via secure APIs and options for revocation or modification of user consent.
The challenge represents a key step toward operationalising the DPDP Act by developing practical models for consent management. It is also part of the government’s broader push to enhance user data rights and digital trust through secure and transparent frameworks.
The results of this pilot could inform future policy and technology deployments for data governance at scale.
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