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Lottery sales recover at snail’s pace 

19 Nov 2021

By Dinitha Rathnayake  Development Lotteries Board (DLB) sales are slowly recovering after the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic according to new Chairman Anusha Palpita. Speaking to The Morning Business, Palpita said lottery sales had decreased due to the pandemic, at as low as Rs. 1.8 million. “Our normal lottery sale is in the range of Rs. 25 to 26 lakhs. However, this range has decreased due to the pandemic. For around 75 days we couldn’t do any sales. However, the situation is under control at the moment. We hope we will be able to recover during the December season,” Palpita noted, adding that 80% of sales have recovered so far. Nevertheless, according to Palpita, sales personnel have also been affected due to Covid-19 and some have already found new jobs instead of selling lottery tickets. “We are trying our best to encourage them considering the current situation and expect to have a Rs. 300 million profit in January 2022,” he said. The objective of the DLB is to bring luck whilst strengthening the country’s development efforts through lottery tickets. The DLB has offered scholarships to more than 306,637 students from 1983 to 2019, and today too, the DLB has the same humble objective to provide hope to countrymen.


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