The Government of India has decided to ban three kinds of games, a plan which will soon be implemented. Online games will have to be cleared by certain SROs (Self Regulatory Organisations), within 90 days from announcement of the regulations. Although the blueprint for banning online games is ready, the parameters to classify the three types of games have not been clarified yet. The three kinds of games that will be banned in India are: games that involve betting, games that can be harmful to the user and games that involve a factor of addiction. This comes after various online games came under the scanner of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology for operating religion conversion rackets.
Games that are harmful to the users pose threats such as information theft and fraud, while addictive games include spending unreasonable amounts of time and money. In a recent incident in China, a girl spent Rs. 52 lakhs in online game purchases over a period of four months by stealing money from her mother. Google Play Store and App Store are the two major applications that will be affected according to the new rules.
