PTT to allow handicapped vendors sell lottery tickets

Thai gas company PTT Plc will allow handicapped vendors to sell lottery tickets at its 1,500 pumps nationwide at no cost and will buy any unsold tickets back from them, PTT’s president told Thai PBS news.

Pailin Chuchottaworn said following a meeting with Government Lottery Office board chairman Maj Gen Apirak Kongsompong the pair agreed to roll out the scheme to help solve the problem of overpriced lottery tickets, while helping in particular handicapped vendors by giving them spaces in the petrol stations to sell lotto tickets at no cost.

Vendors will have to sell lottery tickets at the official price of 80 baht ($2.37) a pair, though PTT will not charge them a rental fee for the spaces, he said.

PTT will also buy the tickets back from the vendors if they have not sold out before the lottery draw, he said.

Last month, Thailand’s General Prayut Chan-ocha, in his capacity as head of the National Council for Peace and Order, sacked the board of the Government Lottery Office and will set up a new board with himself as a chairman.

 

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