G YUVANESHWAR
Introduction
In the world of digital era we see many developments as well as many disasters. Online Gambling is one of the variant of disaster. It creates negative impacts in various aspects like financial loss, addiction and loss of mental health.
Cricket betting
Most addictive form of gambling is online cricket betting. People with greedy invest the money on the betting sites and applications using their knowledge in cricket. Initially the cites provide instant bonus if their predictions succeed. It leads to craving for money which resulted in addiction. In Maharastra 45 year old man loss his whole bank balance in the cricket betting. This is one real life incidence how cricket betting threaten the addicted people.
Online Rummy
Rummy is familiar gambling all over India. Rummy is played using cards with betting of money. It’s taken a new form in digital era as a online version. Their registration in this game is connected with the players bank account. Players given easy levels in the initial stage game which stimulate them to invest more money and get addicted. Slowly the game gets complicated which results in loss of their money.
Parimatch
It is online applications with all the collections of games like poker,rummy etc. It has 24/7 live streaming for customer service support to attract more customers. In further days the real face of the application revealed when the costumers loss their wealth. The number of customers keep on rising on rising day by day. A 30 year old man lost his salary and to recover the amount he further deposited more money and finally lost all his money. In the end of his frustration he committed suicide.
Conclusion
The result of online gambling is financial loss to many families. Many families lost their bread winner of the family. It is overall loss of wealth, health, time and dignity of the person. Many persons form a family and many family form a society, so it should be addressed with atmost responsibilty. Eventhough government taken necessary actions it is not wiped out completely. Somewhere it is continuing , which may again grow into a big wave and wash away the many families. It is each and every one responsibility also to have a concern to engage in good activity to earn and spend time. Let’s all have the responsibility to eradicate online gambling.