Government planning new crackdown on mobile gaming? Here’s what Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar has to say

It appears that the Indian governmnet is planning another crackdown of mobile gaming in the country as the Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar has issued a new statement related to gaming culture in India. In an interview to ANI, Chandrasekhar revealed that the government has prepared a blueprint of the new rules and will ban the games that do not fall under it. The minister has classified the games in three categories - Games that involve betting, games that can be harmful to the user and games that involve a factor of addiction.

Although Rajeev Chandrasekhar has not mentioned the name of any particular game, the first names that strikes the mind of most readers when talking about addictive games are Call of Duty, Candy Crush and others. Over the last few years, the mobile gaming industry has seen a significant growth in the Indian market with gaming centerting smartphones becoming affordable. Although many are making a career out of it, health experts have warned of the effects that these games can have on the human mind.