New Delhi: The department of consumer affairs (DoCA) has decided to withdraw from framing guidelines for e-gaming and cancelled a planned study for protecting the growing number of online gamers, two people aware of the developmen said, after draft rules were issued by the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY).

       Bengaluru’s National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (Nimhans) was to conduct the study on “disruptive impulse control behavioural patterns of online gaming that may cause vulnerabilities," with the plan to notify new rules after the completion of the detailed pan-India study.

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