Roaring Sales of Kerala Onam Lottery Tickets

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala 'Thiru Onam Bumper lottery', billed as carrying the biggest prize money of over Rs.20 crore in the country, is seeing roaring sales, an official said Sunday.

"The sale of tickets opened July 6 and the draw is scheduled for Sept 7. Every day we expect a sale of 1.50 lakh tickets," said the official on condition of anonymity.

The lotteries department (under the taxes department) looks after the sale of the tickets.

"Last year for Onam, over 30 lakhs tickets was sold and taking that as the bench mark, when this year's bumber was planned, we decided to have a ceiling of maximum 54 lakh tickets.

"We printed over 36 lakh tickets, out of which 23 lakh tickets were sold till yesterday (Saturday). With 12 days to go for the draw, we decided to print another six lakh tickets," said the official.