Consent Manager Registration Under DPDP Act Comes Into Effect

India’s personal data law moved another step towards full working order. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said on 14 November 2026 that the part of the law dealing with the registration of Consent Managers had begun to operate from 13 November 2026. To put it to use, MeitY Secretary S. Krishnan opened an online gateway at dpbi.gov.in through which companies may file their applications.

What a Consent Manager does

The law calls an ordinary person whose data is being handled a Data Principal. A Consent Manager is a company on the register of the Data Protection Board of India whose task is to hand that person a single counter from which permission over personal data can be granted, looked over, altered or taken back. The counter must be easy to reach, plain about what it shows, and built so that it can talk to other systems. The duty of a Consent Manager runs to the person whose data it is, and not to the business gathering the data — that, more than anything, is what the design is meant to secure.

Who may apply

A company has to be incorporated in India to be considered. It must also be able to show skill in technology, strength in day-to-day operations and sound finances, with a net worth no lower than ₹2 crore. Every application will be weighed by the Board against those conditions, and the names of the firms it clears are to be listed openly on the Board’s own website so that the public can check who is on the roll.

A rollout in stages

This registration window is only one slice of a timetable. The pieces that remain — what a Data Principal may demand, the duties loaded on a Data Fiduciary, and the Board’s own authority to hold an inquiry and impose a penalty — are listed to start on 13 May 2027. The working detail sits in the DPDP Rules, 2025, which the Ministry has placed on its website along with the text of the Act.

Why it matters for the exam

The Act was passed in 2023 and its rules notified in 2025, so the question paper now has three fixed pegs to hang a question on: the Board that registers, the portal that receives, and the two dates that divide the rollout. The ₹2 crore floor on net worth and the condition that the applicant be an Indian company are the kind of eligibility detail that a one-mark question is built from.