IT ministry appointed as nodal ministry for online gaming in India

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has been appointed as the nodal ministry for online gaming in India. President of India Droupadi Murmu amended the Allocation of Business Rules to make the change. For e-sports, the Department of Sports, under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MYAS), has been notified as the nodal agency.

The Centre had been working on formulating rules for the sector for a while now. In May, a seven-member inter-ministerial task force was set up under the Minister of State for Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar to select a nodal agency for the sector.