🥥 Kerala State Lottery — Today's Result

The first state lottery ever run in India

The Directorate of Kerala State Lotteries started operations on 1 September 1967. It was the brainchild of then-Finance Minister P. K. Kunju, who banned private lottery operators across Kerala and brought the entire lottery market under government control to redirect the revenue to public welfare programs. Other Indian states followed Kerala's model in the years that followed; Nagaland, Sikkim, and West Bengal were among the first to copy the structure.

The first ticket was released by founder Director Shri P. K. Seydu Mohammed. It sold for ₹1 with a first prize of ₹50,000 — modest numbers by today's standards, but extraordinary for 1968 India. The inaugural draw took place on 26 January 1968. The Directorate has run continuously since then, making 2026 its 58th consecutive year of operation.

Today Kerala State Lotteries is the second-largest state-lottery operator in India by revenue (after Nagaland's network of Dear-branded daily draws), and remains the most digitally-mature: the official LOTIS portal publishes every draw result in real time, and the Directorate's own Android app pushes notifications within minutes of the draw closing.

One draw a day · seven different brand names

Unlike Nagaland's three-slot daily structure (1 PM, 6 PM, 8 PM) or Sikkim's two-slot model (4 PM Labh Laxmi + 6 PM Dear), Kerala runs one single draw per day, always at 3 PM, with the brand name rotating through the week:

Note about retired brand names: if you see "Win-Win" (Mondays), "Akshaya" (Wednesdays), "Nirmal" (Fridays), or "Pournami" (Sundays) listed on other sites, those are the previous Kerala brand names — they were retired in a 2024 schedule rework. The seven names in the table above are the current set as of June 2026. Tickets from the older series cannot be claimed against the new draws.

The Bumper calendar — six festival draws a year

Kerala is the only state lottery operator that runs a structured annual Bumper cycle — six special draws timed to major Malayali festivals, each carrying a 1st prize between ₹6 crore and ₹25 crore. Bumper tickets are sold over a 2-3 month window leading up to the draw and cost more than the weekly tickets (₹250–₹500 each).

Thiruvonam Bumper is the big one. At ₹25 crore 1st prize, it routinely sets the year's single highest state-lottery payout anywhere in India — larger than Punjab's Lohri Bumper, Maharashtra's Padmavati Bumper, or any of the Nagaland Bumper-class draws. It draws nationwide ticket sales during the August Onam season.

The currently active bumper is the Monsoon Bumper BR-110, on sale until early July 2026.

Prize structure — nine tiers, not five

Kerala's weekly lotteries pay out across nine prize tiers plus a consolation tier — almost twice as many as the typical 5-tier Nagaland or Sikkim draw. The bottom tiers are small (₹100 to ₹500) but cover tens of thousands of winners per draw, dramatically improving the odds of hitting some prize.

Total payout per Karunya draw is in the range of ₹4-6 crore, depending on the day's ticket take. Bumper draws can pay out ₹40-100+ crore across the prize structure.

How to claim a Kerala lottery prize — 90-day window

Kerala gives winners three times longer than most state lotteries to claim — 90 days from the draw date, vs the standard 30 days in Nagaland, Sikkim, and West Bengal. Two other Kerala-specific advantages worth knowing:

1. Sign and photograph the winning ticket immediately — same first step as anywhere. The ticket is a bearer instrument.
2. Gather the documents. Kerala has its own list, slightly different from Nagaland's:
   • Self-attested signed copy of the winning ticket (with address on the back)
   • Two passport-size photos, attested by a gazetted officer (this gazetted-attestation requirement is Kerala-specific — Nagaland doesn't require it)
   • PAN card copy + a photo ID (Aadhaar, voter ID, driving licence)
   • Cancelled cheque or bank passbook copy with IFSC + account number
   • A receipt signed with a ₹1 revenue stamp affixed (also Kerala-specific)
3. Submit based on prize size:
   • Up to ₹1 lakh → walk into any District Lottery Office in Kerala
   • Above ₹1 lakh → Directorate of Kerala State Lotteries, Gorky Bhavan, Thiruvananthapuram
4. OR claim via bank (unique to Kerala): nationalised banks, scheduled banks, state cooperative banks, and district cooperative banks across Kerala accept lottery-prize claims and forward them to the Directorate. Useful for winners outside Thiruvananthapuram who don't want to travel.
5. Receive net winnings. 30% TDS under Section 194B (same as everywhere) applies to any prize above ₹10,000, plus a 10% agent commission deduction on the gross prize. On a ₹1 crore Karunya win, the maths is: ₹1 cr × (1 − 0.10 agent − 0.312 tax) ≈ ₹58.8 lakh net to bank.

Helpline (Directorate, Thiruvananthapuram): 0471-2305230. The 7-step universal claim guide is at /how-to-claim — the steps above are the Kerala-specific deltas.

Kerala vs Nagaland Lottery Sambad — how they differ

People sometimes ask whether a Kerala lottery ticket can win in the Lottery Sambad draws. The short answer is no — these are two independent state-government operations with completely different prize structures, draw times, and ticket formats. The full side-by-side:

Live coverage on this site — coming soon

This page is the editorial groundwork for our Kerala coverage. The scraper that fetches the LOTIS results portal in real time is on the build queue right after the Sikkim scraper stabilises. When it ships, this page will show the day's winning numbers, the full nine-tier prize table, and the official PDF embedded inline — same format as our live Nagaland and Sikkim pages.

In the meantime, for today's actual Kerala result, the canonical sources are:

• Official Directorate site: statelottery.kerala.gov.in/English/
• LOTIS real-time results portal: lotteryagent.kerala.gov.in/result/public/
• Official Android app: search "Kerala Lottery Official" on Google Play (publisher: Government of Kerala)

If you want a heads-up when our Kerala coverage goes live, email [email protected] with the subject "Kerala" and we'll send a single notification.