| The Karnataka government, which often announces that it would scrap its hourly draws, consider the Nagaland lottery in Karnataka as 'illegal and fraud', ban its sale in the State immediately and initiate an enquiry into its genuiness, said the association president C Ramakrishna. |
| Nagaland state is operating a 'lucky jackpot' lottery all over Karnataka. Besides an hourly draw, it is holding half hourly draws between 5-30 and 7-30 p m daily. It offers first prize of Rs 1,000, second prize of Rs 500, and third prize of Rs 100, while each ticket costs Rs 12, unlike the Karnataka Government lottery which offers Rs 50,000 first prize and Rs 5,000 as second and third prize for each series in the hourly draws. In all, it offers four prizes. |
| Speaking at a press conference, Ramakrishna said Nagaland tickets do not bear details as to where it is printed, while all the nine lakh Karnataka state lottery tickets are made available to the market by MISC and payment for the winning tickets are made through the State Treasury by the MISC, which establishes its credibility. |
| Similarly, while the money generated from the Karnataka lottery is used for social causes like mid-day meal scheme for school children, what happens to the money collected by the Nagaland lottery is not known, he said. |
| Ramakrishna said the association will launch an agitation and take direct action to prevent Nagaland lottery tickets sale at lottery and online lottery shops if the government fails to take proper action immediately. |
| He said Mysore had around 20,000 ticket sellers and the turnover was between Rs 20-25 crore a day. |
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