Chandigarh, January 28: Punjab State Dear New Year LohriBumper-2021 has brought a new hope for a middle-class family of West Bengal.Sangita Choubey, a housewife, who teaches clay modelling and drawing to kids inpart time, won the first prize of Rs.2.50 crore.
Feeling extremely happy Sangita (48) resident of Asansol(WB) said that she had never even dreamed of winning such hefty prize money inlife but Punjab State New Year Lohri Bumper has made it possible. Herfather-in-law had been buying lottery tickets but he never won such a bigprize. He insisted that she should also try her luck and she bought a lotteryticket for the first time. Lady luck smiled at last on our family, she added.
After submitting the ticket and required documents to theState Lotteries Department today at Chandigarh for encashment of the prize, shesaid that her husband is working in the private sector and they have a daughterand two sons. The big prize money would be a great help for them to get theirchildren settled in life and they would also be able to tide over financialproblems after getting the prize money.
An official spokesperson of the Punjab State LotteriesDepartment said that this time the first prize of New Year Lohri Bumper of Rs.5crore was to be given to the two winners Rs2.50 crore each. The results of thebumper were announced in a draw on January 15, 2021. Out of these, the winnerof Ticket A-322070, Sangita has submitted the documents and the prize moneywill be credited to the winner's account soon. Notably, the first prizes ofbumper lotteries issued by the Punjab government are announced from the soldtickets and Punjab is the only state in the country to do so.