Lottery sellers go home with quota pledge

Lottery ticket vendors from Loei province rally near Government House on Monday to demand for increased quotas for small-scale lottery retailers. (Photo: Apichart Jinakul)
Lottery ticket vendors from Loei province rally near Federal government House on Monday to demand meant for increased quotas for small-scale lottery retailers. (Photo: Apichart Jinakul)

Numerous individual lottery suppliers from Loei have got returned home right after receiving an assurance from the Government Lottery Office (GLO) that it will allocate them solution quotas on August 10.

Jeerasak Noikam, chief executive of the Loei Province Lottery Club, said the group was pleased by the assurance, after meeting an authorities representative on Tuesday.

Mister Jeerasak had directed more than 350 protesting vendors outside Government House since Weekend calling for the GLO chief and board to resign and allocate quotas associated with lottery tickets costing 70. 40 baht for them.

The group said they are forced to buy from various other wholesalers at 92 baht, and pass on some of that additional cost to clients. They have never obtained quotas so they could hardly sell tickets in 80 baht, he or she said.

The group filed a petition along with a listing of small-scale vendors who also wanted to receive lottery quotas on Wednesday and received a satisfactory answer, he mentioned.

“Today marks a landmark in our efforts. All of us believe we will get what we asked for from the GLO, ” he or she said.

One of the vendors through Loei said he’s sold lottery tickets for 30 years and not had a quota. He or she expects that on Aug 10, his name will be among those whom the GLO will allocate quotas in order to at the wholesale cost. After receiving the assurance the protesters went home about 11am on Tuesday.

At the same time, other small retailers lodged an issue urging the Anti-Corruption Division to review the GLO’s decision to slice quotas to fifty, 000 sellers in addition to look into a new electronic lottery ticket project.

The network said the GLO cancelled the particular quotas of many suppliers, including those who are handicapped and supposed to get them.

Prime Minister’s Office Ressortchef (umgangssprachlich) Anucha Nakasai mentioned selling lottery tickets online is more suitable as customers pay out the right price.