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 recreation apps have made youngsters of faculty age into debt price lakhs of rupees by giving them the dream of changing into wealthy. Some youth even ended their lives attributable to habit of on-line gaming. But the shocking factor is that authorized motion will not be being taken towards these gaming platforms that are robbing the way forward for youngsters and ruining many households.
There are many such instances in Barmer, Rajasthan during which the complete household has been ruined attributable to on-line gaming. Because youngsters lately are falling prey to moneylenders. To change into wealthy by on-line gaming, individuals get trapped in taking loans from moneylenders after which to pay the curiosity, their whole homes are bought. Because this quantity is in lakhs.
Loan price lakhs on 10-Twelfth class college students, curiosity is greater than the principal quantity
You can be shocked to know that many youngsters learning at 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 have been charging curiosity of Rs 10 per hundred. This mortgage mafia will not be solely making unlawful restoration within the identify of curiosity. Rather, by giving loans to highschool youngsters, they’re additionally making them hooked on on-line gaming, playing and drug habit. This curiosity mafia is sustaining its maintain in many colleges and schools. Where any baby 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 regularly because the mortgage will increase, these curiosity mafias put strain on the kids.
Not solely this, one other affiliate of those mortgage mafias offers more cash to those youngsters on the pretext of repaying the mortgage. While he’s additionally a member of the identical gang, the kids 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 yr in the past. After marriage, every part was going nicely, Vikram was pursuing additional research and likewise making ready for a job. The spouse was 6 months pregnant and at some point Vikram all of a sudden dedicated suicide by hanging himself within the room on the roof of the home. The household didn’t perceive something, every part was high quality 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 cellular, his youthful brother searched Vikram’s cellular and got here to find out 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 individuals have been constantly placing strain on Vikram to get well the cash. Troubled by this, Vikram took the dreadful step of suicide. Two months after Vikram’s demise, his spouse gave beginning to a daughter, however his playing habit took away the happiness of a household. In the case of suicide attributable to 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 great enterprise and was residing a cheerful life. In such a scenario, the son obtained 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 might not be good to provide 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 compelled 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 taking part in 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 obtained from residence, however couldn’t get the work finished 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 recreation would give lakhs of rupees, so I borrowed cash on curiosity from wherever I might get it. Gradually the mortgage determine reached near Rs 15 lakh and when the curiosity mafia reached residence, the bottom slipped from underneath the ft of the household. Now the daddy is becoming a member of palms with this curiosity mafia.
Case 4. The son of a businessman resident of town obtained so hooked on gaming that he took a mortgage price 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 obtained wind of this, he tried to purpose along with his son however the son will not be prepared to surrender this habit.
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 steer clear of this habit, 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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