{"id":3851,"date":"2023-01-29T03:51:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T22:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3851"},"modified":"2025-03-26T19:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T14:18:15","slug":"what-is-grievance-appellate-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-grievance-appellate-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Grievance Appellate Committee?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About<\/strong> <strong>Grievance Appellate Committee<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The central government notified three Grievance Appellate Committees (GACs) under an amendment to IT Rules 2021.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Composition\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Each of the three GACs will have <strong>a chairperson, two whole-time members<\/strong> from various government entities and retired senior executives from the industry.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Term:<\/strong> Three years from the date of assumption of office.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The GAC will be a virtual digital platform that will <strong>operate only online<\/strong> and the digitally entire process, from the filing of an appeal to the decision, will be conducted digitally.<\/li>\n<li>Users will have the option to appeal against the decision of the grievance officer of the social media intermediaries and other online intermediaries before this new appellate body.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Committee will endeavour to address the user&#8217;s appeal within <strong>30 days.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the mandate of IT rules 2021?<\/h3>\n<p>The IT Rules 2021 mandate social media platforms to exercise greater diligence with respect to the content on their platforms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/gacs-to-handle-user-complaints-against-social-media-firms-from-march-1-it-ministry\/article66442871.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Grievance Appellate Committees to handle user complaints against social media firms from March 1: IT Ministry<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The central government notified three Grievance Appellate Committees (GACs) under an amendment to IT Rules 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}