Banned Restricted Category list
Annexure 2: Restricted Businesses list
- Gaming/gambling which includes lottery tickets, sports bets, memberships/ enrolment in online gambling sites, and related content.
- Prescription drugs or herbal drugs or any kind of online pharmacies which includes drugs or other products requiring a prescription by a licensed medical practitioner. Exceptions mentioned below:
- Medical devices that are authorized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for over-the-counter purchase that are not otherwise restricted and are appropriately described and labelled including Eyeglass frames, Tanning devices, Otoscopes, Ionized or ionic bracelets, Personal Sound Amplification Products (PSAPs) etc.
- Fireworks and related flammable goods
- Securities which includes stocks, bonds, or related financial products
- Forex merchants
- Crowdfunding
- Investment in the future of assets (Futures markets are the performance of contracts for purchase or sale of certain matters at a future date, agreeing price on the present, the amount and due date. Currently these negotiations are conducted in stock markets)
- Portfolio Collection, Debt Collection
- Stock trading & Financial advisory
- Multilevel sales, profits or income by referral of new users
- NGO
- Real Estate
- Loans
- Surgical products on B2B model
- Club memberships
- Money transfer
- Resume Writing Services
- Auctions/Tenders
- Sale of gemstones / High value jewellery
- Sale of animal husbandry
- Antiques or collectibles
- Dietary and herbal supplements
- OTC drugs
- Photographs, images from videos, images generated by PC Images (copyright or intellectual property)
- Foundations, donations or fundraising by third parties
- Discount coupons, coupons
- Sex shops and erotic items
- Professional services (psychologists, lawyers, etc.)
- Protection services (Bodyguards services)
- Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes)
- Political Parties; Politically related payments (donations for a party)
- Religious Organisations
- Financial Services: money exchange service, including bitcoins, cryptocurrency, forex brokers, financial institutions, debt recovery
- Financial Products (Mutual Funds, Insurance.)
- Real Estate Agents/Brokers
- Matchmaker services
- Sexual Health Products (Vitamins, Nonprescriptive Treatment & Medicine)
- Offline dating meet ups, social based dating events, matchmaking
- Gift Cards as Primary Business
- Gold, Silver & Precious metals
- Collection Agencies
- Medical Devices
- Chit Fund, Credit societies and small NBFC
- Fireworks
- Lottery, Raffles
- Incentive Business
- Funeral Services
- Subscription Services
- Warranty Services
- Air Bags, Batteries containing mercury
- Government Uniforms
- Real Estate Maintenance
- Web Hosting, Designing
- Art Promotion
- Commodities Trading
- Career Counselling Services
- Marketplace Model
- Aggregator, Payment Facilitator
- Online betting (of any nature or sort), online Gambling (of any nature or sort) and games of chance (of any nature or sort)