The Central government is changing its rules and decisions one after another on the pressure of the private telecom companies. The latest is the proposal to reduce the penalty for security breach. Now it proposes to reduce the maximum penalty for security breach by the telcos to Rs.1000 crore. Earlier there was no such limit and even 100% contract value was imposed on them as penalty for spyware or malware found in the imported mobile equipments. It is to be noted that the private telcos have been pressurizing the government to reduce the penalty.

In the same way, after insisting for the encryption codes of the foreign companies like Research In Motion (RIN) for Blackberry to security check, the Government has now decided that it is the responsibility of the security agencies to find out the method of checking up, thus relieving the MNCs of handing over the encryption codes.

How much the government is bending on its decisions to favour the private companies!