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`No hasty decision on lottery ban'

Staff Reporter

`Government will first attempt to streamline lotteries'

INAUGURATION: Minister for Science and Technology Ramachandra Gowda beating the drum to signal the start of an adult literacy camp in Bangalore on Thursday. — Photo: K. Gopinathan

BANGALORE: Minister for Small Savings and Lotteries Ramachandra Gowda on Thursday contradicted Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy saying the Government would first attempt to streamline lotteries in the State before thinking of banning them.

Mr. Gowda told presspersons here that ban on lotteries would be considered if the efforts at streamlining them failed. The Chief Minister reportedly announced at Dharmasthala on Wednesday that the Government was thinking to ban all types of lottery in the State from the next financial year.

Asked whether the Chief Minister had taken him into confidence before making the announcement on banning lotteries, Mr. Gowda did not give a direct reply. "I have confidence in him. He has confidence in me." Denying that he and the Chief Minister were making contradictory statements, Mr. Gowda said, "We are all going in the same direction."

Earlier, Mr. Gowda, who inaugurated an adult literacy camp at Seshadripuram College in Yelahanka organised by the Bangalore Urban Zilla Panchayat, said that over 7,000 high school and first year pre-university students had given literacy training to over 14,000 adults under a government scheme. Last year, nearly 5,000 students had imparted training to about 7,500 adults. The Government had announced additional marks of 20 for high school students and 10 marks for first PU students under the scheme, he said.

C. Somashekar, Chief Executive Officer, Bangalore Zilla Panchayat, said 14,000 adults had been made literate, and the target now was to cover 20,000 adults.

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