Industry associations in the online gaming sector can become self-regulatory bodies only after approval by the union ministry of electronics and information technology, and at least three such federations have expressed their wish to get that status, according to a public consultation held between the government and the industry earlier this week.
The union IT ministry is holding public consultations on the draft amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. After a consultation on Tuesday, several media reports had claimed that union IT minister Rajeev Chandrashekhar said that industry bodies cannot become SRBs under the proposed rules. But the minister only said that an industry body could not become a self-regulatory body of its own volition – it has to first be vetted by the MeitY, as the proposed rules say.
