The Esports Players Welfare Association (EPWA) has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking reconsideration of the recently presented Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025, which aims to promote online social games while prohibiting money-based gaming services
The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, passed by the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, is a significant bill aimed at regulating online gaming, recognizing its growing importance in the digital sector, Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said.
Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, aiming to promote e-sports and online social games, while outlawing online money gaming.
The Online Gaming Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, where it was noted that esports will be recognised as a legitimate form of competitive sport in India.
In the just-introduced Bill to regulate online gaming in India, there will be no punishment for those playing online games; it is only the service providers, advertisers, promoters, and those who financially support such games will face the consequences.
The Bill introduced in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday about online gaming encourages e-sports and online social games while prohibiting harmful online money gaming services, advertisements, and financial transactions related to them.
The gaming industry has expressed serious concern over the draft Bill that seeks to ban all real money games, including those based on skill, warning that such a move could severely damage India's digital economy and push players towards illegal operators.
A bill to promote and regulate the online gaming sector including e-sports, educational games and social gaming and to provide for the appointment of an Authority for coordinated policy support, strategic development and regulatory oversight of the sector is slated to be introduced in Lok
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Legal expert Nikhil Menon, in a special interview with ANI, stressed the urgent need for regulatory clarity on opinion trading and prediction markets in India, calling them a powerful yet under-recognised financial innovation.
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