Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Rules, 2026

• Subordinate legislation notified by MeitY under Section 19 of the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming (PROG) Act, 2025 to operationalise India's first central statutory regime for online gaming.
• Twin objective: ban online money games (predatory real-money wagering) while promoting e-sports and online social games.
• Establishes a unified digital-first regulator — Online Gaming Authority of India (OGAI) — as an attached office of MeitY.
• High UPSC salience: intersects GS-II (regulation, federalism), GS-III (IT/economy, internal security — money laundering), and ethics.