The particular government’s plan to concern new six- and three-digit lotteries offers won the authorization of most participants within the public hearings held to gauge opinions on it, Chankrit Detwithak, an assistant to PM’s Office Minister Anucha Nakasai, stated yesterday.
The hearings were conducted online, simply by mail and in individual on the plan to release a new six-digit lottery called L6 plus a three-digit lottery known as N3, said Mister Chankrit in his capacity as chairman of a sub-committee tasked along with exploring measures in order to curb the nagging problem of expensive lottery tickets.
The vast majority of these taking part in the hearings agreed with the program and believed these two new formats is not going to help tackle the particular overpricing issue but also combat illegal lotteries, said Mr Chankrit. However , the Government Lottery Office declined to give details on how many individuals participated.
Those involved in the proceedings said the new lotteries would generate more revenue which the government could spend on funding its efforts to resolve poverty and other social problems including illegal gambling, he said.
The particular underprivileged and handicapped who are interested in becoming or already are federal government lottery vendors may also have more income opportunities, he said, citing findings from the hearings that will be forwarded towards the cabinet.
As for the prices, most of those at the hearings thought it should be 80 baht per solution for the six-digit lottery and 50 baht for the three-digit edition, Mr Chankrit said.
Additionally they thought these lotteries should be made available in both digital and document ticket formats since quite a number of buyers such as elderly people might not be acquainted with buying tickets on the web, he said.
The individuals were also worried that if the new lotteries are only sold in a digital format it would likely affect current govt lottery vendors whom perhaps cannot afford a smartphone or may otherwise struggle to work online due to physical disabilities, Mister Chankrit said.
They also recommended that an age plus spending limit ought to be imposed on the brand new lotteries while ensuring tickets don’t encourage people to gamble more than they should, he said.
People who disagreed with the new plan, meanwhile, failed to believe the new options would lead to any kind of improvement in either the overpriced ticketing problem or the circumstance regarding illegal lotteries, he said.