New Delhi (07/04/2023): The final guidelines for online gaming were announced by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on Thursday. The government released a first set of rules for internet gaming in January.
According to the final regulations, the government will select numerous self-regulatory organisations (SROs) made up of business leaders, educators, and other specialists like child experts and psychologists. The government will initially notify three SROs, with the option to add more later.
These SROs will be in charge of determining whether internet games are legal based on whether they allow wagering.
The word “online game” is further defined in the new regulations as “a game that is offered on the internet and is accessible to a user through a computer resource or an intermediary.”
MoS IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said, addressing reporters, “We are only regulating real money games that involve wagering. By process of exclusion, all other kinds of games will be permissible.”
The IT ministry has recently announced that online gamers must submit to mandatory KYC verification in addition to the SRO.
