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Playwin is India's first and largest online gaming company promoted by the Essel group of companies.
It is in the business of providing infrastructure, data communication, marketing support and service to facilitate a secure online lottery network.
Playwin is the latest brainchild of Mr. Subhash Chandra, the visionary media baron, who gave India its first Satellite channel — Zee TV (having 350 million viewers across 120 countries globally with a bouquet of 23 television channels spanning 8 spoken languages), Asia's largest entertainment theme park — Essel World and the world's largest manufacturer of Laminated Tubes - Essel Propack. |
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Playwin Games of Fortune are very high tech and completely transparent. All games are played through highly sophisticated
terminals and the draws are conducted through special draw machines, which are completely automatic. Moreover, all draws are shown on
television and conducted in the presence of government officials. Playwin offers completely
computerized gaming format, easy playing rules, result draws on television, transparency in distributing prizes won, etc.
Playwin has also appointed an independent auditing firm, Ernst & Young to validate each
draw result. The machines and the related equipment utilized are properly checked and validated before each draw to ensure that there
is no tampering. The entire hardware and software have been provided by International Lottery and Totalizator Systems (ILTS), USA.
Currently, Playwin offers the consumer ten online games like Thursday Super lotto, Thunderball, Saturday Super lotto , Friday Easy Lotto, Lucky 3, Max 3, Keno, Fast Lotto, Joker and Joker 5. All these games can
be played through retailer terminals, and some are also available on the internet and through SMS.
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Substantial portion of the sales revenue goes to the respective state governments, who use the same for infrastructure development, education, feeding of street children and on other developmental projects.
Winners Galore
With a turnover of USD 145 million in the first year, USD 158 million in the second, USD 330 million in the third year (2004-05) and USD
362.6 million in the fourth year (2005-06), Playwin is on the path to create new milestones. Playwin has created 67 crorepatis ( Rs.1
crore º Rs.10 million ), over 2750 Lakhpatis (Rs.1 lakh º Rs.100,000 ) and tens of millions of other winners till date.
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| Playwin Foundation, the social wing of Playwin has always made a continuous effort to reach out to
the underprivileged sections of our society and has supported various social causes. The Foundation recently joined hands with couple of
Akanksha center's that provide education to thousands of slum children by means of schools/shelters. It has contributed Rs. 50,000 to Kulur
Higher Primary School in Kulur Mangalore for building repairs and has sponsored 22 year-old Madhavi Pardeshi, who was selected for the
Junior Asian Power Lifting Championship in South Korea. Playwin Foundation also has the sponsorship contract for 10 Ambulances for 12 months
in Mumbai with Ambulance Access for All. The Ambulances have attended over 6000 calls out of which more than 900 calls to the poor have
been absolutely free. |
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