The Indian government is planning to introduce a set of guidelines to ensure that the country's matrimonial websites aren't "misused" for anything other than the intent of marriage, and especially not used as dating platforms. The government has approved an advisory which will ask matrimonial websites to authenticate its users through legally verifiable identity and address proofs, and keep their IP address records. The new rules will require these matrimonial websites to "confirm the user's intent to enter in to matrimonial alliance" and that "the user information is correct". "We have approved the standards to check cheating on such websites," India's minister for communications and information technology Ravi Shankar Prasad said. The idea for regulating matrimonial websites was proposed last year, amidst complaints of cyber stalking, fake profiles and cheating.