MeitY will be India’s nodal ministry for the online gaming sector

The Indian government has designated the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) as the nodal ministry for the country’s nascent but growing online gaming industry, paving the way for a long-awaited uniform regulatory framework.

Since early this year, the government has been considering plans to regulate the online gaming sector, but a major impediment has been the lack of a nodal ministry to oversee the sector, as online gaming intersects with multiple ministries, including MeitY, MIB, and Sports. In May 2022, the government established a seven-member inter-ministerial task force to work on online gaming regulations and to identify a nodal ministry for the sector, chaired by Rajeev Chandrasekhar, minister of state for information technology.