{"id":956480,"date":"2025-08-21T08:39:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T03:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956480"},"modified":"2025-08-21T08:43:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T03:13:47","slug":"problem-is-online-money-gaming-not-esports-meity-secretary-krishnan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/21\/problem-is-online-money-gaming-not-esports-meity-secretary-krishnan\/","title":{"rendered":"Problem is online money gaming, not esports: MeitY Secretary Krishnan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India could become the online gaming capital of the world and the government is looking to promote legitimate esports and game developers, says S Krishnan, secretary at the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). The senior bureaucrat spoke with ET on a day when the Lok Sabha passed the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025. Edited excerpts:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India could become the online gaming capital of the world and the government is looking to promote legitimate esports and game developers, says S Krishnan, secretary at the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). The senior bureaucrat spoke with ET on a day when the Lok Sabha passed the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025. Edited excerpts:<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956480","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=956480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}