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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.
Published – April 22, 2026 06:36 pm IST
