Draft rules on online gaming being scrutinised, to be notified soon: MoS IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar

Draft rules on online gaming, ready after ‘extensive consultation’, are being scrutinised and will be notified soon, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said.

Chandrasekhar was speaking at the Times Network India Digital Fest on Tuesday.

“Our approach or our response to a sector is not based on comfort or discomfort as much as harm legality and illegality,” he said. “The basic principle is that online gaming represents platforms in the sense who are operating on the internet, and we will certainly make it very, very difficult and certainly illegal for any wagering to happen on these games.”