General Information about the Department

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General Information about the Department

Directorate of State Lotteries department was started on 12^{th of
April, 1969, with the objective of generating revenue for the Government by the sale of
lottery tickets. As a fallout of this objective, it would generate employment for the
people (in the form of agents). This department is headed by the Director - State
Lotteries and Small Savings. State Lotteries department and Small Savings are two separate
departments being headed by a common Director. Both these departments fall under the
purview of the Finance Department of the Govt. of Maharashtra.}

The main objective of the State Lotteries department is to devise and implement various lottery schemes for the state government.

The broad functions of this department are:

^{Devise and plan various lottery schemes}

^{Fix design and serial numbers of the lottery tickets}

^{Monitor printing of tickets at the Govt. printing
press}

^{Distribution of tickets to various locations
and maintaining their stock}

^{Publicity of the schemes}

^{Conducting draws and communicating results to
various locations}

^{Scrutinize and approve prize winning tickets}

^{Keeping track of bogus and counterfeit tickets}