{"id":777003680,"date":"2023-03-24T12:48:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T15:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777003680"},"modified":"2026-04-22T23:25:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:25:24","slug":"authorities-in-puducherry-propose-bill-to-ban-online-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/authorities-in-puducherry-propose-bill-to-ban-online-gambling","title":{"rendered":"Authorities in Puducherry propose bill to ban online gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Public works minister K Lakshminarayanan announced that the law department has prepared a draft bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

India.- The Puducherry government is proposing to pass a bill that would ban online gambling in the union territory. Public works minister K Lakshminarayanan<\/strong> says the law department has prepared a draft bill entitled the Puducherry Prohibition of Online Gambling and Regulation of Online Games Bill 2023,<\/strong> which has been submitted to the home department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lakshminarayanan said the draft bill is pending approval from the finance department to ascertain any financial implications, after which it will be presented to the council of ministers and union government for approval. If the bill is passed, Puducherry will join a growing list of states in India that have banned online gambling<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lakshminarayanan said that while ‘betting and gambling’ comes under the state list under the seventh schedule of the Constitution of India, ‘online gaming’ falls under the Union electronic and information technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opposition leader R Siva had tabled a call attention motion to ban online gambling in the Puducherry legislative assembly. Former chief minister V. Narayanasamy<\/strong> had also urged the National Democratic Alliance government<\/a> to ban online gambling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Times of India, Lakshminarayanan emphasised that the Puducherry government is committed to preventing illegal activities and protecting people’s welfare, especially young people, from the adverse effects of online gambling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The proposal to ban online gambling in Puducherry comes after Tamil Nadu’s government re-enacted a bill banning online gambling<\/a>. To date, apart from the Supreme Court\u2019s precedent on skill-based gambling, there is no federal statute for gambling in India, with each state taking its own stance on the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Public works minister K Lakshminarayanan announced that the law department has prepared a draft bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":21187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Puducherry government is advancing a draft bill, the \"Puducherry Prohibition of Online Gambling and Regulation of Online Games Bill 2023,\" to ban online gambling within the union territory. This initiative follows similar legislative action in Tamil Nadu and highlights India's fragmented regulatory landscape, where states assert jurisdiction over \"betting and gambling\" while \"online gaming\" falls under Union purview. The bill's passage would further restrict market access for iGaming operators and underscore the ongoing legal complexities for industry stakeholders.","focusai_entities":"K Lakshminarayanan, R Siva, V. Narayanasamy, National Democratic Alliance, Times of India","focusai_location":"India, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (1.0), affiliate_publisher (0.9), product_ux (0.7), tech_data (0.7), marketing_crm (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Union Jurisdiction","query":"What are the specific legal arguments and precedents that could challenge Puducherry's assertion of state-level jurisdiction over \"online gaming\" given the Union's purview over electronic and information technology?"},{"label":"Operator Mitigation Strategies","query":"How are iGaming operators currently mitigating the risks associated with India's fragmented regulatory landscape, particularly concerning geo-blocking, KYC, and payment processing in states with active or proposed bans?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,16334],"tags":[23911,4138],"class_list":["post-777003680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legislation-news","category-south-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation","tag-online-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777003680","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=777003680"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777003680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777003703,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777003680\/revisions\/777003703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777003680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777003680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777003680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}