The Lok Sabha on Thursday passed the Press and Registration of Periodicals Bill, 2023, which aims to overhaul the British-era law governing the publishing industry.

According to the report in PTI, Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur said that the bill's passage will streamline the process of registration of the newspapers, and periodicals and shall condense the earlier convoluted eight-step procedure into a user-friendly, single-step mechanism.