Indian Lotteries

Lotteries in India

Tradition & history of Lotteries in India is very old and is highly popular in various states of India like West Bengal, Nagaland, Sikkim, Mizoram, Assam, Punjab, Maharashtra, Goa, and Kerala etc. Several lottery lovers regularly buy lottery tickets and search for lottery results and lottery related news in newspapers and on Google.

In West Bengal there is also a popular Bangla Newspaper that specifically publishes all lottery related news and results known as ‘Lottery Sambad‘ published from Kolkata which circulates in West Bengal and nearer states. Therefore the lottery lovers of eastern part of India generally call all the lottery related news and lottery results as Lottery Sambad.

All the State Lotteries in India are organized and controlled by State Governments and they publish the lottery results in their official gazette notification and also in newspapers. When there was not enough internet in rural and interior parts of India, people often checked lottery results in newspapers and in lottery sambad.

After the launch of 4g internet services by Jio and other operators, the internet is now available in almost all parts of India and people prefer to get all information online in their mobile phone. Although anyone can check the lottery results from newspapers and in lottery sambad, people want to know lottery results quickly over the internet.

But it becomes difficult for the general public to find the results from the official gazette over the internet online. Therefore several web portals started to publish lottery results online. Most people in India search for lottery results, lottery sambad, lottery news etc. on Google. And there are a lot of websites and mobile apps which provide different state lottery results and lottery sambad online. We are also among one of them. Read more about us.

Indian Lottery Regulation Act

In India all lotteries are regulated by Lotteries (Regulation) Act – 1998 and Lotteries (Regulation) Rule – 2010 with various amendments and different State Lotteries Regulation Acts issued by the concerned state to regulate lotteries in their jurisdiction. The Government of India time to time has prohibited lotteries in India but has empowered the State Governments (vide Lotteries (Regulation) Act – 1998 and Lotteries (Regulation) Rule – 2010) to organize lotteries in their states by issuing Official Gazette Notification.

According to that 13 Indian states have allowed organizing and selling lotteries in their states and other states and union territories have prohibited lotteries in their states. Some states have allowed selling of lottery tickets of other State Govt. lotteries in their states with some terms and conditions and some states have completely banned all types of lotteries in their states. Only the State Governments are allowed to organize and conduct lotteries in India and private lotteries are completely banned. Lottery organizing states have their separate Directorate of State Lotteries to control, conduct and regulate all the process of lotteries and appointed authorized agencies to sell lottery tickets.

Participating in lotteries in India

For anyone to buy, sell and participate in lotteries in India depends up on the rules of their residential state. Therefore any one should check this before buying or participating in any lottery schemes. Most of the states that have prohibited lotteries generally don’t allow selling of lottery tickets in their state and some states have prohibited buying also and some states charge huge tax on gain from lotteries. Therefore anyone who wants to participate in lotteries out of their residential state should check the rules carefully, whether it is allowed in their state or not, before participating.

State Government Lotteries in India

As per data available, 13 states in India have allowed lotteries in their states as Sikkim, Nagaland, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Goa, Maharashtra, Kerala, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh & West Bengal. And 12 of them have launched their lottery schemes. There are a number of lottery schemes in India operated by various State Governments by their respective Directorate of State Lotteries under the supervision of State Finance departments or other departments.

Aim of Lotteries in India

The main aim and objective of various state governments in India behind organizing lotteries is

To conduct and promote genuine lottery schemes in a transparent manner in compliance with rules and regulations.
To discourage people to participate in illegal activities like satta & matka.
To generate revenue which is further used for various welfare & development schemes of the state government.
To generate some direct & indirect employment opportunities through conducting lotteries, selling of tickets and other related activities.

State Lottery Schemes in India

Here we have mentioned some popular lottery schemes in India. To know in details about various lottery schemes currently running in India please click the above link to check the article. In case you are interested to know about lottery schemes of any particular lottery operating state of India then you can check here the state wise scheme details of all State Lotteries mentioned below.

Nagaland State Lottery
Sikkim State Lottery
Punjab State Lottery
Kerala State Lottery
Arunachal Pradesh State Lottery
Assam State Lottery
Bodoland State Lottery
Goa State Lottery
Maharashtra State Lottery
Manipur State Lottery
Meghalaya State Lottery
Mizoram State Lottery
West Bengal State Lottery

Indian State Lotteries Results

All lottery organizing State Governments publish lottery results in newspapers and also have their official website to publish lottery results. You can find the list and link of all state lotteries official website in the article mentioned above ‘State Lottery Schemes in India’. We collect the lottery results and news related to lottery from the official websites, State Government gazettes, notifications and other sources available in the public domain and represents them at one place in a simple structured manner for better information and ease of access of the general public and lottery lovers.

During the Covid19 pandemic and due to lockdown and other restrictions, functioning of most of the State Lotteries was suspended. And after some easing in restrictions, some states have restarted the functioning of lottery schemes. After full functioning of all lottery schemes by all the states we will try to cover all Indian State Lottery Results. Currently in this portal we are providing all State Lottery Results and links of all state lotteries official website. You can check the current results and previous day results here in our website from the respective state lotteries official website through the links provided in all results page.

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Important information – Lottery winners have to claim their prize within 30 days of publication of results (as mentioned in the guidelines). Please check & confirm the lottery results provided here with the respective State Government official notification / Gazettes Notification. Contact your nearest lottery agency, distributor or retailer for more information. Please read our disclaimer.

Important Disclaimer – We are not registered or appointed agency of any of the lottery organizing State or distributor / agent of any lottery agency nor sell, circulate or promote lotteries in India. We just collect the information related to lottery results, notifications and news from the official websites, State Government directorate of lotteries gazettes, notifications and other sources available in the public domain and present them in a simple structured manner for information and ease of access of the general public.

We take all possible efforts to collect & provide genuine and correct information, but sometimes unwillingly some technical glitches may happen as all the information is collected, transferred and presented electronically. Therefore we recommend all users and visitors to check & confirm the lottery results and information we provide here in our website with the respective State Government official notifications, Gazettes and concerned state Directorate of Lotteries official website as they are the authority to organize & conduct all activities related to the lotteries and publishing the results.