# Neha Bhattacharya Source: https://cricketin.org/authors/responsible-gaming-officer Responsible Gaming Officer. [Editorial policy](/editorial-policy) 18+ Betting money on cricket carries a direct risk of financial loss, and it can become an addiction. Real-money online gaming is banned across India under the PROG Act 2025, which came into force on 1 May 2026. If betting is already costing you money you need, or sleep, or people close to you, the free Tele-MANAS helpline is **14416**, and it runs in 20 languages. Our [page on help for gambling harm](/guides/help-for-gambling-harm-india) lists what else exists. --- Checks the harm, limits and help-line pages Neha Bhattacharya Responsible Gaming Officer, Cricketin Portrait is a line drawing, not a photograph. ## About Neha Neha covers the part of the site nobody wants to need: how harm shows up, what a deposit limit or a self-exclusion actually does, and which service answers at three in the morning. Background in helpline and counselling support in Kolkata. Every number and service on these pages is named with its source and re-checked at each review date, because a dead help line is worse than none. Rajeev Sathe reads these pages back before they go out. ## What this role covers - Signs of gambling harm - Deposit limits, cool-offs and self-exclusion - Help lines and support services in India - Talking to someone about a gambling problem ### Where the role stops These pages do not diagnose or treat anything, and Neha does not counsel readers. They point to a service that does, and say who runs it. ## How a page with this name on it is checked Neha does not publish alone. Every page is read back by a second person before it goes out, and the byline names both. The standard both work to is in our [editorial policy](/editorial-policy), and the method behind the numbers is set out in [how we test](/how-we-test). Sources are linked in the page itself, primary text first. Where something cannot be checked yet, the page says so instead of guessing. Anything found wrong after publication is logged on the [corrections page](/corrections) with the date and what changed. ## Pages Neha signs ### Written by Neha (4) - [Help for Gambling Harm in India - Real Helplines](/guides/help-for-gambling-harm-india) - [Self-Exclusion and Deposit Limits in India 2026](/guides/self-exclusion-and-limits) - [Signs of Gambling Addiction - 12 Early Warnings](/guides/signs-of-gambling-addiction) - [Responsible Gaming in India - Help and Limits](/responsible-gaming) ## The rest of the team Every page on this site is written by one of these people and checked by another. - [Rajeev Sathe](/authors/editor-in-chief) — Editor-in-Chief, sets the rules for the site and reads back what other people write - [Anjali Deshmukh](/authors/cricket-analyst) — Cricket Analyst, writes the cricket rules, formats and match-fact pages - [Nikhil Varma](/authors/betting-analyst) — Betting and Odds Analyst, explains odds, margin and probability without pushing an operator - [Ananya Rathi](/authors/legal-writer) — Legal and Compliance Writer, writes the law, tax and advertising-rule explainers - [Farhan Qureshi](/authors/payments-expert) — Payments Expert, covers UPI, deposits, KYC and payment safety - [Karthik Iyengar](/authors/data-editor) — Data Editor, checks the numbers, dates and tables, and reads back the site's own pages ## Contact and conflicts Questions about a page, a source or a correction go to the editorial desk through our [contact page](/contact). Name the page and the exact claim; a byline concern is handled the same way as a factual one. Nobody here is paid by an operator, and no payment on this site is tied to a conversion. How the site is funded is set out in the [affiliate disclosure](/affiliate-disclosure).