Dr Sarath Obeysekera

In my work place and in our are we live, poor people and some middle class people keep buying lottery tickets with fervent hopes that they will win one day .This legalized gambling promoted by the State are conning people .We have seen how ministers were so greedy to grab the lotteries board under their control .Because it is a den of thieves .NLB lavishly spend for advertising and carry on procurement with no control. We have seen in the past when some heads make lot of money .

Poor people fall into the trap and spend their hard earned money to win .When you read the news below .you will feel that you will never buy lottery ticket in the future .

This country is full of casino kings ,conners ,and gamblers .Some want to take over the helm of the country to make Sri Lanka the Kingdom of Gambling and overtake Las Vegas and Macau ?

Auditor General should file criminal action against NDB and punish them for this cheating act .

News

Lottery sham: You don’t win big because DLB plays ball with probability games

By Namini Wijedasa

AG’s explosive report highlights discrepancies between draws and tickets printed

Wonder why you never win big–or even decently–at the lottery? One reason is that the Development Lotteries Board (DLB) prints a strikingly smaller number of tickets for each draw than is required on the basis of the number of balls in the draw machine.

This means the probability of there being a winning ticket in your hand is minimal, the Auditor General’s Department has said in an explosive new report available on its website. It also found significant drawbacks in the DLB’s conduct of the lotteries. For instance, there was no evidence that the number of balls in the draw machine is verified or their quality inspected before each edition.

The DLB operates in a duopoly. The other player is the National Lotteries Board (NLB), which the Auditor General said was run better. The DLB generates income for the President’s Fund for remittance thereafter to the Mahapola Higher Education Trust Fund.

The Auditor General looked at reports that public confidence in winning was lost. In recent years, there weren’t enough prizes being scored. And the draws typically extended into many weeks without anyone clinching the first or super prize.

Data and trends predominantly between 2012 and 2013 were examined. The Department found that the DLB printed a lesser number of tickets” than what was required in relation to the number of balls used in each draw. It placed more balls in the draw machine than is needed in relation to the number of tickets available for sale. And there were counterfeit tickets in the market because of a lack of proper security codes. This showed improper” management control over the draw process, it said.