{"id":777003203,"date":"2023-03-10T09:47:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T12:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777003203"},"modified":"2026-04-22T23:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:54:08","slug":"meghalaya-will-go-ahead-with-repeal-of-regulation-of-gaming-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/meghalaya-will-go-ahead-with-repeal-of-regulation-of-gaming-act","title":{"rendered":"Meghalaya will go ahead with repeal of Regulation of Gaming Act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The act allowed regulated casinos in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>India.- Meghalaya chief minister <strong>Conrad K. Sangma<\/strong> has announced has announced on Twitter that the state government will present a bill to repeal the Meghalaya Regulation of Gaming Act (MRGA), 2021, during the Assembly budget session.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The controversial law permitted regulated casinos in a move intended to boost tourism, but opposition from church leaders, civil society and political parties, including alliance partner the BJP led to the government promulgating an ordinance to repeal the act in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Act had led the state of Meghalaya to be described as <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/meghalaya-found-to-be-most-gambling-friendly-state-in-india\" target=\"_blank\">the most gambling-friendly state in India<\/a>&nbsp;in the UK Indian Business Council (UKIBC) Gaming Industry Index. The study measured each state\u2019s attitude to gambling based on seven verticals (lottery, horse racing, sports betting, poker, rummy, casino and fantasy sports).&nbsp;<strong>Meghalaya scored 92.85&nbsp;<\/strong>on a scale of 0 to 100, 100 being fully legal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The act allowed regulated casinos in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":21186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Meghalaya's Chief Minister has announced the state government will present a bill to repeal the Meghalaya Regulation of Gaming Act (MRGA), 2021, which had permitted regulated casinos. This legislative reversal, driven by significant opposition from various stakeholders, negates the state's previous positioning as highly gambling-friendly according to the UKIBC Gaming Industry Index.","focusai_entities":"Conrad K. Sangma, BJP, UKIBC","focusai_location":"India, Meghalaya","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.95), affiliate_publisher (0.7), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Broader Indian Regulatory Impact?","query":"What are the broader implications for iGaming regulation across other Indian states, given this legislative reversal in Meghalaya and the influence of public opposition?"},{"label":"UKIBC Index Re-evaluation?","query":"How will this decision impact the UKIBC's assessment of India's overall gaming market potential and regulatory stability, particularly concerning the 'gambling-friendly' state index?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,16334],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-777003203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legislation-news","category-south-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777003203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777003203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777003203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777003221,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777003203\/revisions\/777003221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777003203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777003203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777003203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}