{"id":4868,"date":"2023-01-09T12:34:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T07:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4868"},"modified":"2025-03-27T02:55:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T21:25:24","slug":"digital-communication-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/digital-communication-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Communication Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Digital Communication Commission (DCC)\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was set up by the Government of India via a resolution in 1989 with administrative and financial powers of the Government of India to deal with various aspects of Telecommunications.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Government re-designated the \u2018Telecom Commission\u2019 as the \u2018Digital Communications Commission\u2019 in 2018.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nodal Ministry:<\/strong> It is under the <strong>Ministry of Communication<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Members:<\/strong> Consists of a Chairman, four full-time members, who are ex-officio Secretaries to the Government of India in the Department of Telecommunications and four part-time members who are Secretaries to the Government of India in the concerned Departments.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Telecommunications is the ex-officio Chairman of the Digital Communications Commission.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Functions:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Formulating the policy of the Department of Telecommunications for approval of the Government.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Preparing the budget for the Department of Telecommunications for each financial year and getting it approved by the Government.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Implementation of Government policy in all matters concerning telecommunication.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is digital communication?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Digital communication is the use of online tools like email, social media messaging and texting to reach other individuals or a specific audience to share a message<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/business\/india-business\/govt-to-disband-telecom-body-dcc-finance-ministrys-doe-to-step-in\/articleshow\/96838272.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Govt to disband telecom body DCC, finance ministry&#8217;s DoE to step in.<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Communication Commission was set up via a resolution in 1989 to deal with various aspects of Telecommunications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4868","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\/4868","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=4868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}