Meghalaya government today launched India’s first fully digital lottery – EasyLottery.
The launch held in New Delhi was attended by Chief Minister Conrad Sangma, Commissioner and Secretary (ERTS) Pravin Bakshi and Director of Meghalaya State Lottery M S N Marak.
With the first winner prize of Rs 50 crore, EasyLottery promises to be a game changer in terms of giving a seamless and transparent lottery experience; right from buying tickets to prize money disbursals.
Sangma lauded the endeavours being made towards bringing in more transparency and professionalism to the lottery sector by giving it an end-to-end digital touch.
He also noted that as the lottery is purely a game of chance, a transparent digital option such as EasyLottery allows individuals and society to benefit.
“Many Indians today are losing their valuable time to online games and illegal betting apps that are designed to be addictive. So an environment that does not compromise on the fun and benefit society, ensures that EasyLottery is designed to make and not break. When you win a prize, you are able to benefit from it and if you lose, the taxes paid on it are sown back into society and the country benefits,” Sangma said.
Commenting on the launch, Marak said, “Despite having a population as large as ours and being one of the most digitally empowered countries in the world, India has had a pronounced gap in its lottery sector until now. With the launch of EasyLottery, we are trying to bridge this gap. Our ticket sales, prize payments and tax payments will be done digitally.”
“The only aspect of our cycle from sale to prize disbursement that is not done digitally is the lottery draw itself. This is because we have opted to use the most trusted and transparent methodology, which is the motorised method where the machine cannot be manipulated and therefore the draw outcomes are purely based on chance,” she added.
In an effort to prevent money laundering, EasyLottery ensures that only the buyer of the winning ticket is the recipient of the prize with its ‘non-transferable ticket’ policy.
Tickets, Pricing and Prizes, in an effort to put the citizens of the country first and create a win-win situation for all stakeholders, EasyLottery also ensures that the intermediary costs are negligible.
The ticket purchasing technique also offers three selection options to the player to choose what suits them best.
In the Option 1: Random Selection, where the ticket number is randomly selected by the system, in the Option 2: Total Sum Selection, where one can choose a digit from one to nine, wherein the sum of the digits of the ticket number will be the number one chooses and in the Option 3: Complete Selection, wherein buyers will have the freedom to choose the exact ticket number(s) they like
EasyLottery will have the highest odds of winning various large prizes including the first prize of Rs 50 crore which is the largest ever first prize in the history of lotteries in India.
Each ticket is priced at Rs 5000 in such lower than even international lotteries. EasyLottery guarantees a first prize for every draw and the winner is determined in a one-letter and four-digit draw method with just 2,60,000 tickets in the draw.
