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Online gaming Bill puts no liability on gamers: Vaishnaw
Business Standard
|August 21, 2025
The government's attempts at engaging with the gaming industry to create solutions, such as a self-regulatory body or transparency in algorithms, so that rising instances of addiction to online real-money games could be curbed, did not yield any results over the past three or four years, Union Minister for the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw told Aashish Aryan in an exclusive interview in New Delhi. Edited Excerpts:
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What is the government's intent behind the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025?
The online gaming sector comprises three segments, namely e-sports, online social gaming, and real-money games. Of these three, the Bill aims to promote two segments of e-sports and social gaming. We would like to make India a game-making hub. The country's creative energies, cultural richness, technological & design capabilities will be harnessed in the first and second segments.
This story is from the August 21, 2025 edition of Business Standard.
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