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Kerala State Lotteries is a lottery programme run by the Government of Kerala. Established in 1967, under the lottery department of the Government of Kerala, it is the first of its kind in India. In 1967 all private lotteries were banned and the Government of Kerala started the Kerala State Lotteries. The idea behind the setup of the new ...
Lottery tickets for sale, Ropar, India. 2019. A lottery (or lotto) is a form of gambling that involves the drawing of numbers at random for a prize. Some governments outlaw lotteries, while others endorse it to the extent of organizing a national or state lottery. It is common to find some degree of regulation of lottery by governments.
The Kerala lottery was created as a mean to generate revenue to help the poor and the needy belonging to marginalized sections of society. [16] The profits from state lotteries sponsor several welfare programs. One of these is the Karunya Benevolent Fund Scheme that provides financial assistance to under-privileged people suffering from acute ...
Thiruvananthapuram, [ a ] formerly known as Trivandrum, [ b ][ 9 ] is the capital city of the Indian state of Kerala. It is the most populous city in Kerala with a population of 2,984,154 as of 2024. [ 10 ][ 11 ] The encompassing urban agglomeration population is around 1.68 million. [ 5 ] Located on the west coast of India near the extreme ...
Malayalam is the official language of Kerala and one of the six Classical languages of India. [ 411 ] There is a significant Tamil population throughout Kerala mainly in Idukki district and Palakkad district which accounts for 17.48% and 4.8% of each district's total population. [ 412 ]
The economy of Kerala is the 9th largest in India, with an annual gross state product (GSP) of ₹9.78 lakh crore (US$131.98 billion) in 2020–2021. [2] Per-capita GSP of Kerala during the same period is ₹257,711 (US$3,100), the sixth largest in India. [1] In 2019–20, the tertiary sector contributed around 63% of the state's GSVA, compared ...
The following are official state symbols of the Indian state of Kerala. The banner depicts the emblem of Kerala on a white field. The emblem portrays two elephants guarding the state and national insignias. The state insignia is the conch-shell of Lord Sri Padmanabha and the national insignia is the Lion Capital of Ashoka.
2020 →. The 2015 National Games of India, also known as the 35th National Games of India and informally as Kerala 2015, was held from 31 January 2015 to 14 February 2015 across seven districts of Kerala, India. [1] It was the second time that Kerala hosted the national games, the first being when it hosted the 27th National Games in 1987.