Internet.org is Facebook’s contentious job to subsidise information for individuals in states where prices of information access are high and incomes low.

For breaking web neutrality principles, it’s come under fire in India.

Facebook has began the public effort to make a case before lawmakers for permitting free internet access platforms like Internet.org.

“Do you need India to have free basic online services? The assignment of Internet.org will be to get everybody in the planet online.

Many MPs, including Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and many of cabinet ministers, have their Facebook pages.

The DoT panel’s report on web neutrality, which has been put on MyGov web site for public opinions till August 15, has received only over 500 views against over 10 lakh messages that were sent to regulator TRAI via an internet effort in support of executing perfect web neutrality in India.

Net neutrality suggests that equivalent treatment be granted to all Internet traffic and no precedence be given to business or an entity predicated on payment to service or content providers like telecom businesses, which is viewed as discriminatory.

The DoT panel has opposed jobs like Facebook’s Internet.org which permit access to specific sites without cellular data costs. The information costs are borne service provider or by the sites.