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The keenly-awaited gully of the 2025 Thiruvonam Bumper lottery, which has seen grounds sales, volition beryllium held connected Saturday. According to the State Lotteries department, which operates the lottery, 75 lakh tickets were printed and sold by its offices this twelvemonth for the bumper lottery that carries a archetypal prize of ₹25 crore.
Palakkad topped the districts successful income with 14.07 lakh tickets. Thrissur stood 2nd with 9.37 lakh tickets, followed by Thiruvananthapuram (8.75 lakh tickets). Last year, the section had sold 71,43,008 tickets for the Thiruvonam bumper, which was a grounds astatine the time.
Finance Minister K.N. Balagopal volition inaugurate the draw, held astatine Gorky Bhavan, connected Saturday and motorboat the Pooja Bumper which carries a archetypal prize of ₹12 crore.
The gully was primitively planned connected August 27, but was enactment disconnected connected relationship of the dense rainfall successful the State and the Goods and Services Tax reforms which saw the taxation connected lottery accrued from 28% to 40%.
The Kerala authorities and commercialized unions representing lottery vendors and agents had petitioned the Union authorities not to rise the taxation connected lottery tickets, but were unsuccessful.
Meanwhile, the State Lotteries section has warned buyers to beryllium connected defender against mobile apps and online platforms claiming to merchantability the Kerala lottery. State Lotteries Director Mithun Premraj said the section carried retired lone nonstop income done its agents and vendors.
