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GOVERNMENT ISSUES REVISED

ONLINE GAMING RULES

nline gaming is emerging as an
Oindustry in the country and is
growing rapidly. Its role in developing
a trillion-dollar digital economy in
India by 2025–2026 is very important.
With a view to strengthening the
regulatory framework and making
gaming safe for children and women,
the Ministry of Electronics and
Information Technology released draft n A self-regulatory mechanism which, in
amendments to the IT intermediary future, may also regulate the content of
rules 2021 pertaining to online gaming online gaming. Arrangement of mandatory
for public consultation. verification of players.
Minister of State for Electronics and n Ensure that the games do not have violent,
IT, Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar, said, addictive or sexual content. It is necessary to
"The rules are simple: we would like the follow the rules applicable in India.
online gaming ecosystem to expand
and grow and be an important catalyst IMPORTANT POINTS OF THE DRAFT n Around 40 to 45 percent of gamers in India are
to India’s one trillion dollar digital women, so keeping the gaming ecosystem
economy goal by 2025–26." "We also safe is all the more important.
envision a bigger role for startups in n Draft rules have strict provisions against
the online gaming industry." He added betting and wagering.
that the ministry would be holding n The online games that allow wagering on the
another set of public consultations to outcome are effectively a no-go area.
finalize the policy soon.

'HAR GHAR BIJLI YOJANA' ILLUMINATES

J&K VILLAGE FOR THE FIRST TIME

he people of Tethan Gujjar township in
TAnantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir are
showering accolades on Prime Minister Narendra
Modi's 'Har Ghar Bijli Yojana'. The residents here
have seen electric light for the first time in their
lives in their village. The villagers say that this light every household for the progress of the country. It
is not just for their homes but that it will transform was announced in August 2015 that electricity would
their lives. When the power supply started, not only be provided to the villages that were previously dark.
the villagers but also the electricity department Now, in the process of providing electricity to every
personnel started dancing in front of the new household, electricity has reached Tethan village,
transformer. with a population of 200 people, under a central
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi assumed scheme. Residents of this place, Fazuluddin Khan
power, he took a pledge to provide electricity to and Zafar Khan, say that they have seen electric light
for the first time.
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