kerala state lotteries is a staterun lottery programme of the government of kerala the kerala state lottery department was established in the year 1967 under the government of kerala in the year 1967 the state banned all the private lottery businesses and started its own state lotteries the idea of starting a staterun lottery programme was a brainchild of then kerala finance minister p k kunju sahib the programme was started with an aim of providing employment to people and supplement government finance without disturbing the publicthe kerala state lotteries department has more than 465 employees under its directorate located at vikas bhavan at thiruvananthapuram 14 district offices and a regional deputy directorate at ernakulam the department has now been moved under the taxes departmentthere are different types of lottery draws under the kerala state lotteries programme with different prize structurekerala lottery types1 kerala state weekly lotteries the kerala state lottery department conducts seven weekly lotteries including pournami win win sthree sakthi akshaya karunya plus nirmal and karunya the draw is held at 300 pm every day at sree chithira home auditorium pazhavangadi east fort thiruvananthapuram2 kerala seasonal lotteries in addition to the above the kerala lottery department also conducts several seasonal bumper lotteries such as xmas summer vishu monsoon thiruvonam and pooja kerala state lottery resultthe results of the lottery are published on the official website of kerala lotteries wwwkeralalotteriescom on the same day the same is also published in the kerala government gazette