India’s new online gaming authority to be operational from day one, says IT secretary

India’s newly formed Online Gaming Authority, a national regulator tasked with overseeing the online gaming industry, will be functional from the moment the government notifies the rules, S. Krishnan, Secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, said in an interview with CNBC-TV18.

Krishnan said that the authority is fully staffed and will run as a digital office from Delhi-NCR. “It can be ready the next day, because all the officials are in place,” he said, adding that the digital system was also being prepared to enable…