The move aims to curb unlawful online gaming activities, which negatively impacts around 45 crore people losing more than Rs. 20,000 crores (August 2025).
- Online gambling involves placing bets on games of chance or skill through internet platforms, including sports betting, poker, casino games, etc.
Key Reasons for Curbing such Unlawful activities
- Economic Implications:
- Illegal parallel economy: Profits generated from illegal activities are unnoticeable and outside ambit of taxation.
- Money laundering: Such platforms could be used for moving illegal earnings through legal channels hiding their source.
- Social Implications:
- Rising Addiction: It may cause pathological gambling, Repetitive Stress Injuries (RSIs); harm emotional well-being, etc.
- Pathological gambling is a clinical disorder characterized by persistent and recurring failure to resist gambling behaviour.
- Harmful Digital Environment:Predatory money gaming practices often lure users with false promises of easy financial gains.
- Rising Addiction: It may cause pathological gambling, Repetitive Stress Injuries (RSIs); harm emotional well-being, etc.
- Ethical Implications:
- Imbibes Immoral Virtues: Gaining underserved wealth through gambling develops bad characteristics like greed, laziness, insensitivity, etc.
- Against Kantian Philosophy: Gambling is built on using others as a means to an end. E.g., betting on sports using unfair rates causes loss of money.
Key Initiatives to curb such activities
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