Kerala State Lotteries results today: Nirmal NR-197 results to be announced at 3 pm; check results at www.keralalotteryresult.net

Kerala Nirmal lottery results today: Directorate of Kerala State Lotteries will announce results of its Nirmal lottery results on Friday. The results will be announced for Nirmal NR-197 lottery draw. All those who have purchased the lottery ticket of this draw can see the results by visiting the official website to know the status of your lottery ticket.  You can see the results at the official website www.keralalotteryresult.net to see if you are the lucky one to bag a prize.     

The draw will be done at Gorky Bhavan, Near Bakery Junction, Thiruvannthapuram and could be followed live at 3 pm.      

According to the information available on its website the 1st prize winner will get a whopping amount of Rs 70 lakhs. 

The second prize carried a reward of Rs 10 lakh while the 3rd prize winner will get Rs 1 lakh.     

Kerala is among the 13 states which runs lotteries. The 12 other states are West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Assam, Sikkim, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Nagaland, Goa, Maharashtra, Manipur and Mizoram.      

The lottery in Kerala is run by the Directorate of Kerala State Lotteries. The department which came into existence on September 1, 1967, released its first lottery ticket on November 1, the same year.      

The department now rolls out seven weekly lotteries viz. Pratheeksha, Dhanasree, Win-Win, Akshaya, Bhagyanidhi, Karunya and Pournami lotteries and six bumper lotteries. The department, which started with a few personnel, now has around 465 employees under its Directorate located at Vikas Bhavan at Thiruvananthapuram, 14 District Offices and a Regional Deputy Directorate at Ernakulam.      

Moreover three Taluk Lottery Offices are also functioning one each at Punalur in Kollam District, Kattappana in Idukki District and Thamarassery in Kozhikkode District. The department which was initially under the Department of Finance was later brought under the Taxes Department.      

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With its humble beginning, the department was to set an example for the entire country, the department claims. Soon many other states jumped into the bandwagon by starting their own lotteries, it says.