# Parliament Panel Wants OTT Age Verification, Post-Release Review 2026-08-08T10:04:02+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet A Parliamentary Standing Committee on home affairs has asked the Union home ministry to create a standardised multilingual grievance-redress system for intermediaries under the IT Rules, 2021. The panel, headed by BJP MP Radha Mohan Das Agarwal, also wants the government to study an independent post-release review panel for OTT content flagged by users, with experts from child development, law and social sciences. The committee recommends robust age-verification and parental controls in a proposed OTT regulatory framework, with penalties for non-compliance. It also wants stricter verification of offshore digital advertisers to curb fraud, a durable mechanism for CBI cybercrime probes across states, and a unified cybercrime law with a specialised task force. Integration of cyber-hygiene into school curricula has also been urged. ## Coverage - rediff.com Tags: age verification, cybercrime, digital advertisement, grievance redress, OTT regulation, parliamentary committee Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/parliament-panel-wants-ott-age-verification-post-release-review/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/parliament-panel-wants-ott-age-verification-post-release-review/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes.