New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- A blanket ban on social media for children is not the way to go and will not be effective, a unanimous stance in a recent consultation held by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), along with social impact consultancy Space2Grow, with civil society organisations on the issue of online child safety. In its stead, it was deliberated whether a new chapter in the Information Technology Act, an altogether separate law or guidelines by India's apex child rights body National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) should be developed, as per people at the consultation on Thursday. HT has learnt that NCPCR is currently in the process of creating a social media code of conduct for social med...