Thai Working Committee to Solve Lottery Ticket Overpricing Issue

A working committee to permanently solve the problem of overpriced lottery tickets is being established with input from the civil sector, as the government seeks to work with all stakeholders to resolve the persistent problem.

Seksakol Atthawong, Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, invited small lottery vendors in Loei province to a discussion to find solutions to the problem of overpriced lottery tickets.

He said that a working committee for the sustainable resolution of the government lottery problem will be established with representatives from the government lottery office, the finance ministry, the civil sector and the office of the permanent secretary in the prime minister’s office. . The latter is implicated in this case because of his responsibility to remedy the difficulties of members of the general public.

The Deputy Minister said that once the working committee concludes, all relevant information will be sent to the Prime Minister for final review before guidelines to address the overpriced lottery ticket issue are produced. (NNT)