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Consultation Responses

These are responses we write to documents that are put out by the government or the regulator in the public domain, often intended for public consultation – such as white papers or regulatory notifications or circulars or committee reports, etc.

January 18, 2024 | Dvara Research

The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Insurance Products) Regulations, 2023, hereafter "Draft Regulations", was released by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) in December 2023.

January 7, 2022 | Dvara Research

In this blog post, we present our comments to the Report of the Working Group on Digital Lending including Lending through Online Platforms and Mobile Apps, November 2021 (the Report) in response to the call for comments from all stakeholders by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

By Srikara Prasad, Sarah Stanley
August 4, 2021 | Dvara Research

In this blog post, we present a summary of our response to the consultative document.

By Sowmini G Prasad, Anukriti Tiwari
February 13, 2021 | Dvara Research

An analysis of literature on the socio-economic implications of sharing privately held NPD and the objectives of other comparable frameworks suggests that the rationale for some of these goals are unclear. They do not take into consideration the complete economic and social merits and demerits of sharing privately held NPD.

By FFI
February 13, 2021 | Dvara Research

In this blog post, we present our comments to the Report by the Committee of Experts on Non-Personal Data Governance Framework, December 2020

By FFI
January 18, 2021 | Dvara Research

In this blog post, we summarise our comments to the Working Document: Enforcement Mechanisms for Responsible #AIforAll

By FFI
January 18, 2021 | Dvara Research

This research note intends to offer a solution-oriented feedback to the Working Document: Enforcement Mechanisms for Responsible #AIforAll (Working Document) released by the NITI Aayog in November 2020.

By FFI
October 6, 2020

This response identifies some overarching concerns with the Report that we seek to convey and substantiate. They are categorised under the following three sections: Section 1: The Report fails to identify the basis for a separate regulatory regime to regulate non-personal data (NPD).

By FFI
October 6, 2020 | Dvara Research

In this blog post, we present our comments to the Report by the Committee of Experts on Non-Personal Data Governance Framework

By FFI
October 1, 2020 | Dvara Research

Dvara Research is a not-for-profit policy research and advocacy institute whose primary mission is to ensure access to financial services for all individuals and enterprises.

By Anupama Kumar, Apoorva Bantula