New Delhi: The Data and Broadcasting Ministry on Monday suggested the print, digital and digital media to chorus from promoting on-line betting platforms, saying betting and playing are unlawful in “most parts” of the nation and pose vital monetary and socio-economic danger for shoppers.
The ministry mentioned the advisory has been issued in bigger public curiosity and comes within the gentle of situations of quite a few commercials of online betting websites/platforms showing in print, digital, social and on-line media.
It has suggested the print and digital media to chorus from publishing commercials of online betting platforms. It has additionally suggested the net and social media, together with on-line commercial intermediaries and publishers, to not show such commercials in India or goal such commercials in direction of the Indian viewers.
“Betting and gambling, illegal in most parts of the country, pose significant financial and socio-economic risk for the consumers, especially youth and children, the advisory states,” the ministry mentioned in a press release.
These commercials on on-line betting have the impact of selling “this largely prohibited activity”, it added.
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