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THAILAND LOTTERY
Thai Lottery History
Lottery first started in Thailand in the reign of King Rama
V. It was first drawn in an international exposition arranged
in the King's birthday celebration.
Again in 1917, a lottery drawing was arranged to finance Thailand's
entry into World War I on the Allied side. Next, lottery was
used to finance the Thai Red Cross charity works expenses in
1932. Lottery was first drawn to really generate revenue for
the government in 1934 to finance the short fall in government
income due to the abolishment of draftee tax, levied on Thai
males who wished to forego compulsory military service. The
drawing was implemented by the Revenue Department. In the same
year, lottery operation was also introduced to the provinces
to finance the provincial municipality operations.
In 1939, the control of government lottery operation was transferred
to the Ministry of Finance with the appointment of the first
lottery board by the Ministry of Finance on April 5, 1939, which
is now held as the founding date of the Government Lottery Office.
Current Responsibility
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At present, the Lottery Office issues 14 million tickets
for each bi-monthly draw. |
In the same draw, it also issues two million tickets for sports
promotion and seven million for other charity organization.
To produce the lottery tickets, the Government Lottery Office
operates a modern, large-scale printing press, which also handles
printing jobs for other government agencies as well.
Each year, the Lottery Office turns in over
4,000 million bath to the government treasury. It also provides
440 scholarships of 20,000 baht each for undergraduates and
earmark eight million baht a year for various charities. The
office also contributes close to 20 million baht a year for
the welfare fund of civil service and military personal, Welfare
Council of Thailand, and the War Veteran Association.
Future projects of the Government Lottery Office includes a
plan to computerize lottery buyers service that visualizes purchasing
of lottery and prize payment by commercial banks' country-wide
network of automated teller machines. The Office also commits
itself to increase its support for public service projects.
Government Lottery Office Thailand
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