{"id":956502,"date":"2025-08-21T08:51:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T03:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956502"},"modified":"2025-08-21T08:58:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T03:28:21","slug":"blanket-ban-on-online-real-money-gaming-will-kill-jobs-revenue-innovation-minister-priyank-kharge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/21\/blanket-ban-on-online-real-money-gaming-will-kill-jobs-revenue-innovation-minister-priyank-kharge\/","title":{"rendered":"Blanket ban on online real money gaming will kill jobs, revenue, innovation: minister Priyank Kharge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka IT and Biotechnology Minister Priyank Kharge on Wednesday criticised the Centre&#8217;s decision to impose a blanket ban on online real money gaming (RMG), calling it &#8220;another masterstroke by Modi Sarkar in bad policy making.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Kharge, son of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, said the decision would hit state revenues, jobs and investments. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;India earns Rs 20,000 crore annually from GST and income tax via online RMG. The ban means states lose this revenue stream,&#8221; he said in a post on &#8216;X&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka IT and Biotechnology Minister Priyank Kharge on Wednesday criticised the Centre&#8217;s decision to impose a blanket ban on online real money gaming (RMG), calling it &#8220;another masterstroke by Modi Sarkar in bad policy making.&#8221; Kharge, son of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, said the decision would hit state revenues, jobs and investments. &#8220;India earns Rs 20,000 crore annually from GST and income tax via online RMG. The ban means states lose this revenue stream,&#8221; he said in a post on &#8216;X&#8217;.<\/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-956502","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\/956502","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=956502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}