The situation in India, a vast country made up of 28 states along with eight union territories has reached a point where three of the states have chosen to prohibit online gaming. Tamil Nadu is now added to that list.
The other states that have banned the activity including popular games such as poker and rummy are Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Telangana is the eleventh largest state and the twelfth most populated state in India and twelfth-most populated state in India with 35,193,978 residents as per 2011 census. In 2014, the area was separated from the northwestern part of Andhra Pradesh as the newly formed state with Hyderabad as its capital.
Tamil Nadu, a South Indian state, is famed for its Dravidian-style Hindu temples with a population of 67.86 million as of 2012. The Tamil Nadu government has specifically targeted online gambling sites in their ban, as well as those who are facilitating gambling transactions. The clear statement revealed that online gambling consumers among them many in the younger demographic felt they were being cheated by the gambling operators. The government wants to keep players from harm caused by online gambling debts and addiction to wagering.
The government statement continued to add, “in order to avoid such cases of suicide and protect innocent people from the evils of online gaming, the government has submitted a proposal to the Governor to promulgate an ordinance by amending the Tamil Nadu Gaming Act 1930, Chennai City Police Act 1888 and Tamil Nadu District Police Act 1859.
Another state in the large nation has also found it necessary to consider banning online gambling. Karnataka is also considering changes in the district, which would ban online gambling there, having noticed that illegal gambling websites have grown during lockdown and proven to be a problem.
Indian online gambling regulations are less than clear and change is extremely slow in the massive country.