Insight into the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025

About the Book - 

The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025 is a landmark law that confronts this challenge head-on. This timely and rigorous guide offers an essential map to the Act’s balanced architecture—promoting what builds skill and community, while prohibiting what harms families and the financial system.

This book provides a clear, practice-ready framework for one of India’s most dynamic sectors. It meticulously unpacks the Act’s “bright line” approach: enabling and professionalising e-sports and safe social games while comprehensively banning stake-based “online money games” along with their advertising and payment channels.

Inside, you will discover

• A Clear Operational Guide: Translate complex statutory language into actionable checklists and compliance playbooks for developers, platforms, investors, and payment intermediaries.
• Comprehensive Prohibition Architecture: Understand the complete ban on offering, advertising, and funding online money games, and the robust enforcement powers designed to close offshore loopholes and tackle illicit finance risks.
• Pathways for Growth and Innovation: Learn how the Act creates a stable legal environment to promote e-sports as a legitimate competitive sport and encourages the development of safe, age-appropriate social and educational games.
• Institutional Framework Explained: Gain insight into the role of the National Online Gaming Authority, the calibrated penalties for offenses, and the due-process safeguards that ensure fair and transparent implementation.