Online Gaming Addiction: As quickly as you open an internet gaming social media platform, you see movies of many celebrities selling it. This publicity and sport apps have made youngsters of faculty age into debt value lakhs of rupees by giving them the dream of changing into wealthy. Some youth even ended their lives resulting from dependancy of on-line gaming. But the shocking factor is that authorized motion just isn’t being taken in opposition to these gaming platforms that are robbing the way forward for youngsters and ruining many households.
There are many such instances in Barmer, Rajasthan through which the whole household has been ruined resulting from on-line gaming. Because youngsters as of late are falling prey to moneylenders. To turn into wealthy by on-line gaming, folks get trapped in taking loans from moneylenders after which to pay the curiosity, their whole homes are offered. Because this quantity is in lakhs.
Loan value lakhs on 10-Twelfth class college students, curiosity is greater than the principal quantity
You will probably be shocked to know that many youngsters learning in school tenth to Twelfth of Barmer metropolis are in debt of Rs 10 lakh every. Most of those youngsters fell into the entice of on-line gaming and took loans from individuals who had been charging curiosity of Rs 10 per hundred. This mortgage mafia just isn’t solely making unlawful restoration within the title of curiosity. Rather, by giving loans to highschool youngsters, they’re additionally making them hooked on on-line gaming, playing and drug dependancy. This curiosity mafia is sustaining its maintain in many faculties and faculties. Where any youngster wants cash, this cash is straight away given to those youngsters within the type of mortgage. It begins with Rs 1-2 thousand or Rs 5 thousand and step by step because the mortgage will increase, these curiosity mafias put stress on the youngsters.
Not solely this, one other affiliate of those mortgage mafias offers extra money to those youngsters on the pretext of repaying the mortgage. While he’s additionally a member of the identical gang, the youngsters have no idea that they’re trapped in his clutches and the debt will increase additional. Gradually the debt will increase and when it reaches lower than Rs 10 lakh, the curiosity mafia reaches the properties of those youngsters.
Four harmful instances of on-line gaming occurred in Barmer
Case 1. Babulal, a resident of Shastri Nagar of Barmer metropolis, used to work in constructing homes. There are three sons and one daughter within the household. Babulal’s center son Vikram, aged 23, accomplished his faculty research and was married with nice pomp a 12 months in the past. After marriage, all the things was going properly, Vikram was pursuing additional research and in addition making ready for a job. The spouse was 6 months pregnant and someday Vikram out of the blue dedicated suicide by hanging himself within the room on the roof of the home. The household didn’t perceive something, all the things was effective between husband and spouse. Nothing occurred within the household too however this dreadful step of the son broke the again of the household. On the third day of his demise, when Vikram began receiving calls from unknown numbers on his cell, his youthful brother searched Vikram’s cell and got here to learn about the entire matter. Vikram misplaced all his cash after falling into the entice of on-line gaming and took a mortgage of lakhs of rupees. These folks had been repeatedly placing stress on Vikram to get better the cash. Troubled by this, Vikram took the dreadful step of suicide. Two months after Vikram’s demise, his spouse gave delivery to a daughter, however his playing dependancy took away the happiness of a household. In the case of suicide resulting from debt crunch, the household appealed to the police station, District Superintendent of Police, District Collector and even Jodhpur Range IG, however no motion was taken.
Case 2. A household within the metropolis has a very good enterprise and was residing a contented life. In such a scenario, the son bought hooked on on-line video games and after dropping the pocket cash, he got here in touch with the curiosity mafia. When a household is wealthy then it will not be good to offer it away. The curiosity mafia gave a mortgage at an curiosity of Rs 10 per hundred. When the quantity exceeded Rs 10 lakh, the mortgage mafia approached the daddy for restoration. The father was pressured to repay his son’s debt by promoting the home.
Case 3. The minor son of an individual working a tea store within the metropolis began enjoying on-line video games with the dream of changing into wealthy in a single day after seeing deceptive propaganda on social media. At first, I performed the sport with the little cash I bought from dwelling, however couldn’t get the work performed with much less cash. I borrowed Rs 50,100 per hundred from the moneylenders and misplaced the sport. To repay this mortgage, it appeared that this sport would give lakhs of rupees, so I borrowed cash on curiosity from wherever I may get it. Gradually the mortgage determine reached near Rs 15 lakh and when the curiosity mafia reached dwelling, the bottom slipped from beneath the toes of the household. Now the daddy is becoming a member of arms with this curiosity mafia.
Case 4. The son of a businessman resident of town bought so hooked on gaming that he took a mortgage value lakhs of rupees from the curiosity mafia. When he didn’t get cash from the sport, seeing his debt rising, he withdrew Rs 10 lakh from his father’s checking account. When the daddy bought wind of this, he tried to purpose together with his son however the son just isn’t prepared to surrender this dependancy.
Online gaming is hollowing out the way forward for the youth like a termite. Many younger and minor youngsters of Barmer are losing their lives by getting trapped on this entice and as a substitute of giving recommendation to avoid this dependancy, many social media celebrities are utilizing it and dreaming of changing into millionaires in a single day. In such a scenario, the demand to ban such gaming platforms has been occurring for a very long time.
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