[കേ.ശാ.സാ.പ] Re: Kerala: Headload Worker Spends Rs 18 Lac on Lottery

Deepak,

Lakhs of people are employed in the lottery 'industry' (10 lakhs acc
to this<http://www.hindu.com/2005/01/26/stories/2005012608710400.htm>report)
of our state, and many of them are invalids.

Arun

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On 5/24/07, deepak p <deepakp7_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=33819&n_tit=Kerala%3A+Headload+Worker+Spends+Rs+18+Lac+on+Lottery
> +
>
> *Kerala: Headload Worker Spends Rs 18 Lac on Lottery
> *
> *Thrissur, May 24:* Aiming to get rich and provide a better life to his
> kin who are dependent on him, a 39-year-old headload worker from Punkunnam
> began buying lottery tickets when he was 17 and has so far spent over Rs 18
> lakh.
>
> However, 22 years down the line, V K Subramaniam is a frustrated man and
> regrets the money spent on lotteries.
>
> He has so far won prize money worth Rs 2.48 lakh and has stopped
> purchasing tickets. He recently burnt about 600 kg of lottery tickets he had
> collected over the years.
>
> Subramaniam said he started buying lottery tickets to help his family,
> comprising his widowed sister and her daughter and his late brother's wife
> and three daughters. He decided not to have a family of his own but to
> instead help those who are dependant on him.
>
> He funded his passion for lotteries with money earned as a headload
> worker. He purchased Kerala state lottery tickets worth over Rs 9.75 lakh,
> besides those of other state lotteries.
>
> Though he spent over Rs 1 lakh on purchasing Kerala lottery tickets, he
> could only win Rs 100 as prize money. The biggest prize money he has won so
> far at one time is Rs 1,000.
>
> He also purchased tickets of the Kerala government's Onam bumper lottery
> worth Rs 5,000 at the rate of Rs 100 a ticket.
>
> Now all his hopes are on the 11th NKL Lottery ticket of Germany, priced at
> 225 euros a ticket. The draws are to be held from April 1 to September 30
> for prize money of 6,36,80,000 euros.
> Subramaniam's other passion is cinema and seeing his hero Mammooty's films
> innumerable times.
> -----------
>
> Is it time to think again of a "Ban on Lotteries". I dont think such
> public gambling kinda things should be so prevelant in an idealistic
> society. Giving people more opportunities to possibly earn some "Quick
> Money" is not the best of things, atleast accrding to me
>
> --
> Deepak P
> http://deepakp7.googlepages.com/
>
> >
>

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