Concept
The Schedule is the table at the end of the Act that fixes the maximum penalty for each type of breach.
The Schedule sets the maximum penalties: reasonable security safeguards (Section 8(5)) up to two hundred and fifty crore rupees; breach intimation (Section 8(6)) up to two hundred crore; children's obligations (Section 9) up to two hundred crore; Significant Data Fiduciary obligations (Section 10) up to one hundred and fifty crore; Data Principal duties (Section 15) up to ten thousand rupees; and any other provision up to fifty crore rupees.
The Schedule turns the penalty power into concrete numbers, tied to which obligation was broken. Security failures sit at the top, individual duties at the bottom.
The Central Government can amend the Schedule, but cannot more than double any penalty from what the Act originally set.
A failure to notify a breach maps to the Schedule entry of up to two hundred crore rupees.
What is the lowest penalty?
Up to ten thousand rupees, for breach of a Data Principal's duties under Section 15.
Can the amounts change?
The government may amend the Schedule but cannot more than double any original penalty.