The amount of service tax collected from lottery distributors and selling agents during the year 2016-17 was about Rs 260 crore

The Centre has no plan to impose a pan-India ban on lotteries, Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said on Wednesday.

He told Rajya Sabha that currently lotteries are allowed in 10 states -- Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Kerala, Maharashtra, Mizoram, Nagaland, Punjab, Sikkim & West Bengal.

"There is no such proposal under consideration," he said in a written reply to a question on plan to impose a pan-India ban on all kinds of lotteries.

The minister said the central government has not allowed sale of lottery tickets in Union Territories & in the absence of a consensus on the issue, the government has notified the Lotteries (Regulation) Rules, 2010 for effective regulation.

The amount of service tax collected from lottery distributors & selling agents during the year 2016-17 was about Rs 260 crore, he said.

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