{"id":333658,"date":"2021-08-31T00:14:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T05:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=333658"},"modified":"2021-08-31T00:14:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T05:44:41","slug":"delhi-government-will-support-e-sports-initiatives-manish-sisodia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-government-will-support-e-sports-initiatives-manish-sisodia\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi government will support E-sports initiatives: Manish Sisodia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-333659\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/new-delhi-delhi-deputy-cm-and-aap-leader-manish-sisodia-during-a-press-conferen-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1599\" height=\"958\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/08\/new-delhi-delhi-deputy-cm-and-aap-leader-manish-sisodia-during-a-press-conferen-.jpg 1599w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/08\/new-delhi-delhi-deputy-cm-and-aap-leader-manish-sisodia-during-a-press-conferen--300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/08\/new-delhi-delhi-deputy-cm-and-aap-leader-manish-sisodia-during-a-press-conferen--768x460.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/08\/new-delhi-delhi-deputy-cm-and-aap-leader-manish-sisodia-during-a-press-conferen--1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/08\/new-delhi-delhi-deputy-cm-and-aap-leader-manish-sisodia-during-a-press-conferen--696x417.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/08\/new-delhi-delhi-deputy-cm-and-aap-leader-manish-sisodia-during-a-press-conferen--1068x640.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/08\/new-delhi-delhi-deputy-cm-and-aap-leader-manish-sisodia-during-a-press-conferen--701x420.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1599px) 100vw, 1599px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Delhi&#8217;s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia declares his government will back E-sports and promote all the measures \u00a0that will support the growth of the sector.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;E-sports is now growing very fast. I am convinced that this deserves all the support and recognition. I promise that the Delhi government will encourage E-sports in every possible manner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will be happy to encourage all the initiatives that will help the industry and the sector to grow,&#8221; he said on the closing day of the inaugural E-sports Premier League on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Mumbai Marshals emerged as champions in the inaugural edition of the country&#8217;s first-ever franchise-based E-sports league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi&#8217;s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia declares his government will back E-sports and promote all the measures \u00a0that will support the growth of the sector. &#8220;E-sports is now growing very fast. I am convinced that this deserves all the support and recognition. I promise that the Delhi government will encourage E-sports in every possible manner. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":333659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,1961],"tags":[2792,14561,14562],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333660,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333658\/revisions\/333660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/333659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}