PRAHAR welcomes takedown of BGMI from Play Store and App Store

PRAHAR, a non-profit organisation working within the space of socio-economic improvement, has thanked the Centre for getting Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) eliminated from the App Store and Play Store.

Published by KRAFTON, BGMI is claimed to be the rebranded model of banned Chinese recreation PUBG Mobile. The Indian authorities banned PUBG in 2020 together with 117 different apps.

Abhay Mishra, president, PRAHAR stated “Since February this 12 months, now we have raised the truth that BGMI and the banned PUBG are one and the identical. In the so-called new avatar, the BGMI was no completely different from erstwhile PUBG with Tencent nonetheless controlling it within the background. We are grateful to the Government of India for taking this step within the curiosity of safety and sovereignty of India”

In February 2022, PRAHAR had written to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) to dam the Chinese recreation app BGMI. The NGO stated within the letter that the cellular recreation “poses a risk to the sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, safety of the state, and public order.”

RSS-affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) had additionally supported PRAHAR on the difficulty and stated the federal government ought to totally examine “the antecedents and China affect” of the BGMI-PUBG app and take “quick motion if present in violation”.

“We are clarifying how BGMI was eliminated from Google Play retailer and the App retailer and will let you already know as soon as we get particular info,” stated a KRAFTON’s spokesperson.

Registered customers

BGMI is claimed to have surpassed 100 million registered customers in July 2022. In the final 12 months, KRAFTON, Inc. invested practically $100 million in Indian startups throughout esports, and leisure startups akin to Loco, NODWIN, Kuku FM, and Pratilipi amongst others.

Apart from the writer’s official tournaments, many Indian esports organisations have been additionally organising a number of BGMI tournaments with large prize swimming pools. The recreation served as a income supply for esports organisations, groups, reside streamers, esports gamers, and gaming content material creators in India.

Setback to stakeholders

Commenting on the event, Rohit Jagasia, Founder & CEO, Revenant Esports stated, “The BGMI ban will certainly be a setback for all main stakeholders like match organizations, Esports groups, coaches, help employees and most significantly the athletes. However, at Revenant Esports, we are going to nonetheless be supporting our BGMI athletes and be certain that they use our coaching facility to create content material and attempt their hand at completely different video games.”