Plastic waste segregation workers pool money to buy lottery ticket in Kerala, hit Rs 10 cr jackpot
Malappuram (Ker), Jul 27 (PTI) They had to go Dutch to buy a lottery ticket and are now laughing all their way to the bank. .
Eleven women workers belonging to a plastic waste segregation unit of the local municipality here paid less than Rs 25 each to buy a lottery ticket worth Rs 250 and won a jackpot of Rs 10 crore.
On Wednesday, the 11 women were wearing their faded green overcoats, rubber gloves and segregating plastic waste collected from households in the Parappanangadi Municipal godown when the big news came. The Kerala Lottery Department announced that the ticket purchased by the women after pooling money, because none of them could afford a Rs 250 ticket, was awarded the monsoon bumper- a whopping Rs 10 crore
