{"id":1005106,"date":"2026-04-27T09:46:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005106"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:34:19","slug":"new-online-gaming-rules-bring-clarity-structure-to-indias-esports-ecosystem-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/27\/new-online-gaming-rules-bring-clarity-structure-to-indias-esports-ecosystem-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"New online gaming rules bring clarity, structure to India\u2019s esports ecosystem: Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The freshly-minted online gaming rules unequivocally recognise registered esports as a legitimate sporting discipline, the industry said on Thursday, adding that the overall framework will prevent proxy real-money platforms from masquerading as esports. <\/p>\n<p>Some, however, drew attention to key gaps such as a lack of clarity on financial frameworks faced by esports teams and players, and flagged ongoing challenges in how banks differentiate between esports earnings and real money gaming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The freshly-minted online gaming rules unequivocally recognise registered esports as a legitimate sporting discipline, the industry said on Thursday, adding that the overall framework will prevent proxy real-money platforms from masquerading as esports. Some, however, drew attention to key gaps such as a lack of clarity on financial frameworks faced by esports teams and players, and flagged ongoing challenges in how banks differentiate between esports earnings and real money gaming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005112,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005106\/revisions\/1005112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}