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Ashwini Vaishnaw@AshwiniVaishnaw · Aug 21, 2025

The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025 passed by the Parliament. The Bill takes a balanced approach…

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India's Parliament passed the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill 2025, which promotes e-sports and online social games while prohibiting online money games due to addiction and fraud concerns. The bill protects players while penalizing service providers and advertisers, prioritizing middle-class family welfare over government revenue.

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    The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025 passed by the Parliament. The Bill takes a balanced approach – promoting what’s good, prohibiting what’s harmful for middle-class and youth. Here’s a quick explainer 👇🧵

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    1/ 🎮Online gaming is an important sector of Digital Bharat. Three segments of online games: 1️⃣e-Sports - Training-based, often played between teams 2️⃣Online Social Games - Fun, educational, community-based 3️⃣Online Money Games - involve financial stakes, addictive, and harmful

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    2/ e-Sports → PROMOTED Just like cricket or football, e-Sports require strategy, reflexes & teamwork. 👉 Bill gives legal recognition to e-Sports. 👉 Government will launch schemes & programs to promote them.

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    3/ Online Social Games → PROMOTED Think Angry Birds, card games, casual brain games. 👉 Recognized as a safe way to interact & learn. 👉 Government to support game makers & creators – part of India’s creator economy & software growth.

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    4/ Online Money Games → PROHIBITED ❌ Youth and children addicted, families ruined. ❌ Massive frauds, credit card debt, even suicides. ❌ Money laundering & terror financing concerns. ❌ Misleading celeb ads giving false legitimacy.

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    5/ Balanced approach of the Bill: ✅ Players = Victims (no punishment). ❌ Service providers, advertisers, fund transfer platforms = Penalized.

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    6/ Why this Bill? 🔹Crores of families destroyed by online money games. 🔹Middle-class savings wiped out. 🔹Thousands of complaints & grievances from across India. Government chose safety of families over any other interests.

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    7/ When it comes to choosing between society’s welfare & government revenue, PM @narendramodi Ji has always chosen middle-class families. This Bill follows the same principle. It’s about protecting society while encouraging e-Sports & online social game creators as engines of innovation.