It is interesting to see that Kerala lottery tickets are set to get a number of security features akin to bank notes. This means the government has no plan to ban all forms of lotteries including channel quiz based on SMS. Let the people contnue to beg and play spolidport, that is the approach of the government towards fraud. Except a few differently abled people live by selling, lottery has no other good features to say. Instead it makes people lazy and tempts them to earn easy money .
For instance, on my way to Sunday church there is a small bridge and passerbys are only a few. On and near the bridge I could count five lottery vendors, two men, two women and another person on a wheel chair. Except the one on the wheel chair all others are healthy and capable of doing manual work. But they will not. They need more money in an easy way. Selling lottery tickets is the easy way for them
The poor and uneducated people are the victims of lottery and that is why sale of state lottery in Kerala is a big hit. Mobile users too lose money by sending SMS to on-line channel quiz.
Buying lottery tickets and liquor consumption are death traps for poor and ignorant people in Kerala and the Government that is bound to restrict it acts as s sponsor. Common man is falling prey to this social evil and is spending all hard earned money without caring children and the ailing old ones in the family. It is not campaigns and awareness programmes that are needed to check the danger but strict law enforcement. By no means lotteries be allowed in the state. If a few people are not able to sustain without lottery, take measures to protect them in old age homes and shelters.
K A Solaman
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