Alert and Awareness: Online Gambling’s Impact and Influence

Abstract

The recent and the tremendous growth of technology provides people with lots of opportunities and ways to make their own livelihood. This growth of technology creates various impacts in the society which hits the people both positively and negatively. One such impact is online gambling. After the intervention of internet, gambling become more popular and convenient among the people as it provides 24/7 easy access to the players for subsequent gambling. Nowadays, Indian people also show great interest in online gambling which impacts them in a negative way. When such situation arises in the society then the need to regulate such gambling also consequently creates and it becomes the duty of the government to regulate it. However, it is not only the duty of the government to regulate it but also the duty of the people to be aware of such practices to avoid further consequences. This has been discussed in this article. This article seeks to create awareness among the general public about online gambling and its consequences. It guides the people by making them aware of what exactly online gambling is, how it manipulates people’s mind and makes them addictive to it. It tries to explain the impact and influence created by such practices among the society and also explains the recovery measures from gambling addiction. It explains how people are attracted by such gambling activities even without knowing the distinctions between the game of skill and game of chance. This article gives insights of the legislative measures provided by the government to regulate and prohibit such activities by the dealing with case laws. Thus, this article suggests the society to take all the available means into the consideration in order not to indulge in such gambling practices as much as possible and also recommends the government to create more effective central and state provisions to regulate the such activities.