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Dedicated CCI regulatory wing to keep check on apps in the offing

House panel to soon call foreign Big Tech for discussion

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Business Standard had reported in the past that existing regulations had prevented the CCI from going all out against these companies for anti-competitive activities

Shivani ShindeAsit Ranjan Mishra Mumbai/New Delhi
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) may soon create a regulatory wing that will monitor digital applications, said sources who attended the parliamentary panel meeting with start-ups on Thursday. 

“The thought process was to keep a check on the rising complaints as well as to reign in the big techs. A new wing or a department will be created that will monitor and govern the digital app ecosystem in the country,” said a person privy to the details of the discussion held. 

The panel met representatives from Zomato, Paytm, Swiggy, MakeMyTrip, gaming firms, among others, to discuss the rising anti-competition