{"id":777017771,"date":"2024-08-01T09:36:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T12:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777017771"},"modified":"2026-04-22T07:35:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:35:39","slug":"india-goa-to-remove-sri-lankan-casino-hoardings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-goa-to-remove-sri-lankan-casino-hoardings","title":{"rendered":"India: Goa to remove Sri Lankan casino hoardings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chief minister Pramod Sawant said the government is not earning anything from them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>India.- Pramod Sawant, Goa&#8217;s chief minister, has said that hoardings promoting Sri Lankan online casinos will be removed. He the government is not earning anything from the adverts and that the police and the home department will ensure compliance even if even ads don&#8217;t explicitly mention casinos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Porvorim police will file a first information report (FIR) regarding a hoarding on the banks of the Mandovi, Sawant said.  While Goa is one of the few states in India with legal casino gambling, online gambling in the state remains a grey area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Goa&#8217;s chief minister has expressed concerns about the impact of online gaming on youth and has said he would <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/goa-to-study-tamil-nadu-law-on-online-gambling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Online Gambling Act<\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>for possible solutions.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also: <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/illegal-online-gambling-may-rise-in-india-due-to-high-taxes-study-says\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Illegal online gambling may rise in India due to high taxes, study says<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief minister Pramod Sawant said the government is not earning anything from them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":34643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Goa's Chief Minister, Pramod Sawant, has ordered the removal of hoardings promoting Sri Lankan online casinos, citing a lack of government revenue from these advertisements and concerns over online gaming's impact on youth. While land-based casinos are legal in Goa, online gambling remains a regulatory grey area, prompting the Chief Minister to explore legislative solutions, including studying Tamil Nadu's online gambling prohibition act.","focusai_entities":"Pramod Sawant, Porvorim police, Home Department","focusai_location":"India, Goa, Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu, Mandovi, Porvorim","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.95), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.9), marketing_crm (0.85), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.85), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Goa's Online Gambling Future?","query":"What specific legislative actions is the Goa government considering to address the 'grey area' status of online gambling, beyond studying the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Online Gambling Act?"},{"label":"Impact on B2B\/B2C Operators?","query":"How might a potential prohibition or formal regulation of online gambling in Goa affect the operational strategies and market access for both B2B suppliers and B2C operators currently targeting the Indian market?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,16334],"tags":[20326],"class_list":["post-777017771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regulation-news","category-south-asia-news","tag-illegal-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777017771","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=777017771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777017771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777017793,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777017771\/revisions\/777017793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777017771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777017771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777017771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}