Online Gaming and Related Issues
Source: PIB
GS II: Government Policies & Interventions
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Rules restricting the amount of money that individual players spend in a game are likely to be introduced by an inter-ministerial body entrusted with developing a framework to regulate online gaming.
Key Facts
- The draft regulations are likely to be finalised over the next month and will then be brought out for public consultation.
- The seven-member inter-ministerial task force, which was set up in May, has members from the Niti Aayog, as well as secretaries of the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Department of Revenue, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting as well as the Meity secretary.
- Meity updated the Information Technology Act of 2000 to add regulations for the gaming industry, just like how the Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code were introduced in February 2021.
- The Rules for Gaming under the IT Act will also contain clauses on self-regulation.
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