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Centre Notifies Draft Rules For Online Gaming: New Regulator, Ban On Money Games, Push For E-Sports

For the fast-growing digital gaming ecosystem of India, these draft rules mark an end to regulative uncertainty and a new dawn.

New Delhi: In a significant effort to regulate India’s rapidly growing online gaming sector, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has notified the Draft Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Rules, 2025 (PROG Rules) under the recently passed Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025.

The draft rules clearly delineate a legal framework for e-sports, social games, and for-profit gaming sites utilising stakes, wagers, and prizes in cash and kind. E-sports and social gaming are targeted to be acce

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