TL;DR: The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act,
2025 (PROG Act) which came into force on the 1 October, 2025, fundamentally reshapes
India's online gaming landscape. The PROG Act implements a
comprehensive ban on Online Money Games (OMGs) while calling for
the promotion of Online Social Games (OSGs) and e-sports. Our
detailed readout of the PROG Act can be read here.
After the enactment, the Draft Promotion and Regulation
of Online Gaming Rules, 2025 (the Draft), was released for public
consultation by the Ministry of Electronics and Information
Technology (MeitY) on the 2 October 2025, to implement the PROG
Act. Key takeaways include:
(i) Establishment of the Online Gaming
Authority of India (OGAI) with powers of a civil court, where
the OGAI will maintain a publicly available national registry of
OSGs and e-sports, and a blacklist of online games that are
determined to be OMGs
