MeitY notifies online gaming rules; norms to come into effect on May 1

The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) on Wednesday (April 22, 2206) notified the much-awaited rules providing the procedural framework to operationalise the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, which will also facilitate the creation of an online gaming authority.

Most online games — if they are not real money games, which are already and explicitly banned under the provisions —will not mandatorily need to be registered or determined, IT Secretary S. Krishnan said.