In print media, electronic media, bus stand, railway station, metro rail station, airport, highway, road, road, airplane, rail, metro rail, bus, etc., the online gaming app that confuses with tag line like “put money, teams, earns, crores” seems to be widespread with popular faces. Due to the promotion of these famous faces, crores of people in the country were working to end their life -long earnings through online gaming apps, losing their lives and losing their lives and ending their precious life, but the Modi government has started the work of tightening the online gaming. Although the online game is mainly considered to be two categories, in the first category, e-sport in which money is not exchanged in any way to play the game and in the second category, there is a transaction of money in real money games, the second category has been curbed. Due to access to the internet in the country, the online gaming app was alive that it was inspired to betting on the homes of the country from remote villages to the towns to towns, from home chaupal to the street, locality, street everywhere, it became common to hear the discussion of online gaming apps.
But Narendra Modi’s government, while working to understand this serious challenge of online gaming in time, on August 19, 2025, on August 19, 2025, a law to control the online gaming app, which has made its penetration between the small and old age of the house, is working in the cabinet to get a law “online gaming promotion and regulation Bill 2025” in the cabinet, both of them do not sound from the country in the cabinet, on 20 August 2025. Passed the houses. Although some people of the country do not mind this law, but people whose houses have stood on the verge of ruin due to the money being on the online gaming app, this strict law will save their homes and businesses. Also, the families who have lost money and money in the name of these online gaming apps, and even family members have lost wealth, those family members will also get satisfaction that no one will be destroyed in future.
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Although there is a huge business of online gaming apps in the country, its customers in the country are from small children to big people, who are falling prey to their terrible addiction and mental depression while playing online games by downloading various apps of these online gaming in their mobile phones with internet connectivity. At the same time, betting is going on with the tag line that attracted the platforms of these games, “put money, teams, make crores of earns”, people on these platforms were working to lose their thick earnings for a lifetime. Also, the way cyber fraud incidents in the country are coming on with the help of online gaming app, it is a matter of concern. Due to this, this business of online gaming of Narendra Modi government was closely monitored. In the same episode, years ago, the Modi government had implemented 30 percent GST on any type of rupee-pace on online gaming app on 1 October 2023 and 30 percent GST on the amount won in the year 2024-2025, due to which the government was getting a huge amount of Rs 20 thousand crore annually as GST. About 400 startups have started in India in the last few years of online gaming, while about 25 thousand crores have been invested. But Chief Economic Advisor V. Anant Nageswaran had revealed that Indians are spending about 1 lakh 20 thousand crore rupees huge amount every year in the affair of these online gaming apps, which is a very shocking and worrying situation. At the same time, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnav had told in Parliament that every year 45 crore Indians lose 20 thousand crore rupees in the affair of online gaming. At the same time, agencies, who have been closely monitored on cyber security in the country, had also strictly tightened these online gaming platforms, these agencies have worked to protect people from cheating by banning thousands of apps that have been cyber -fed under the guise of online gaming app, the government had blocked more than 1400 websites alone in the year 2022. But despite the strictness of the government, people with online gaming apps used to be able to lose some new tricks to withdraw money from the pocket of people with online gaming apps.
Due to this, Narendra Modi’s government started enacting strict laws to curb the robbery of the online money gaming app that plays the online money gaming app, taking a big step, taking a big step to the Union Cabinet meeting, approved the “online gaming promotion and regulation Bill 2025″ in the Union Cabinet meeting, taking a big step, taking a big step, on the next day, the next day, on the next day, the next day, on the next day, on 20 August 2025 ” His Majesty was sent for approval to get the green signal from the President, where the law has come into force in the country after the bill was stamped on 22 August 2025 after the President’s approval on 22 August 2025. According to this new law, transactions with money-pay transactions on online gaming app are completely banned in the country. Now people who provide money-pay transactions in the online gaming app in the country will get a strict punishment of up to three years and a fine of up to Rs 1 crore. At the same time, the way online gaming apps used to resort to the famous eternal and various celebrities of the sports world to implicate the innocent people in their clutches, it will also curb the promotion of online gaming due to the punishment of two years and a provision of a fine of up to Rs 50 lakh. The government has made it clear in the provisions made on the online gaming app that this is a social evil, on which the central government wants to fully curb. However, on the issue of online gaming app, the opposition as well as the opposition also believed that it has become a serious social evil, only then the bill passed in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha houses in just 26 minutes.
Although Prime Minister Narendra Modi supported the bill, saying that this law would promote e-spores in the country, but will stop the online gaming app which is directly impacting the economic status and mental health of the people, Prime Minister Narendra Modi described this law as a big step towards saving the society from harmful trends.
However, after the new law, a lot of platforms who have done online gaming work in the country have announced to stop the transactions of rupee-money, which is a sign of a positive change in the world of online gaming app and in the interest of the general public.
– Deepak Kumar Tyagi
Advocate, columnist and political analyst
(The author has his own views in this article.)