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Colachel port will provide jobs for to Kanyakumari’s youth: Modi
Kanyakumari:Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said a big seaport at Colachel, entailing an investment of Rs.21,000 crore, will be set up in Tamil Nadu’s Kanyakumari district and help provide jobs for local youth.
Addressing an election rally here, around 710 km from Chennai, Modi said the work on building the seaport has begun.
“For the first time an investment project worth Rs.21,000 crore has come to Kanyakumari. The seaport will provide employment to the Kanyakumari youth,” Modi said.
He said tourism is another industry that provides lot of employment opportunities, and his government has laid a wide road connecting Kanyakumari with Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram which in turn would develop tourism.
Modi said economic development is the solution of all the problems.
According to him, the central government in New Delhi will reach out to people in crisis wherever they are and cited the Chennai floods as an example.
He said the central government provided help and relief material to people of Chennai affected by floods last December.
Referring to the release of Father Alexis Prem Kumar from Taliban’s custody, Modi said the priest’s sister did not believe when he called her and said: “I am Narendra Modi speaking.”
“I told her that her brother will be back in India in two and a half hours.
He said it was the BJP government that negotiated with the Sri Lankan government and secured the release of five fishermen from Tamil Nadu who were sentenced to death by a Sri Lankan court.
Modi also said the central government saved thousands of women from Tamil Nadua and Kerala who were working as a bonded labourers in Mumbai.
He also said the the central government provides Rs.27 as subsidy for one kilo of rice distributed through the public distribution system in the state, and it is this rice that is being cooked in the utensils of poor people in Tamil Nadu.
Modi said his name or his picture is not there on the rice bags thereby taking a dig at the AIADMK government in the state that brands the welfare schemes as Amma scheme with Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa’s picture on the packs.
According to him, the aim of the central government is to see that the hunger of Tamils are satiated.
Modi said the BJP-run central government was two years old but there was no corruption charge against it unlike the previous Congress government that was involved in scams like 2G, 3G and amd helicopter purchase.
The State Scores Extra High on Gaming-Friendly Industry Index
Meghalaya scored 92.85 out of 100 possible points in a Gaming Industry Index and proved to be India’s most gaming-friendly state following its recent profound legislation changes over the field allowing land-based and online gaming, including games of chance, under a licensing regime.
The index by the UK India Business Council (UKIBC) uses a scale of 0 to 100 to measure the level of legalisation on gambling and betting achieved by a state based on the scores over a set of seven different games – lottery, horse racing, betting on sports, poker, rummy, casino and fantasy sports
Starting from February last year, Meghalaya became the third state in India’s northeast to legalise gambling and betting after Sikkim and Nagaland. After consultations with the UKIBC, the state proceeded with the adoption of the Meghalaya Regulation of Gaming Act, 2021 and the nullification of the Meghalaya Prevention of Gambling Act, 1970. Subsequently in December, the Meghalaya Regulation of Gaming Rules, 2021 were notified and came into force.
All for the Tourists
The move to legalise and license various forms of offline and online betting and gambling in Meghalaya is aimed at boosting tourism and creating jobs, and altogether raising taxation revenues for the northeastern state. At the same time, the opportunities to bet and gamble legally will be reserved only for tourists and visitors.
“We came out with a Gaming Act and subsequently framed the Regulation of Gaming Rules, 2021. The government will accordingly issue licenses to operate games of skill and chance, both online and offline,” said James P. K. Sangma, Meghalaya State Law and Taxation Minister speaking in the capital city of Shillong. “But the legalized gambling and gaming will only be for tourists and not residents of Meghalaya,” he continued.
To be allowed to play, tourists and people visiting the state for work or business purposes will have to prove their non-resident status by presenting appropriate documents, in a process similar to a bank KYC (Know Your Customer) procedure.
Meghalaya Reaches Out to a Vast Market
With 140 millions of people in India estimated to bet regularly on sports, and a total of 370 million desi bettors around prominent sporting events, as per data from one of the latest reports by Esse N Videri, Meghalaya is set to reach out and take a piece of a vast market.
Estimates on the financial value of India’s sports betting market, combined across all types of offline channels and online sports and cricket predictions and betting platforms, speak about amounts between $130 and $150 billion (roughly between ₹9.7 and ₹11.5 lakh crore).
Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Delhi are shown to deliver the highest number of bettors and Meghalaya can count on substantial tourists flow from their betting circles. The sports betting communities of Karnataka, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana are also not to be underestimated.
Among the sports, cricket is most popular, registering 68 percent of the total bet count analyzed by Esse N Videri. Football takes second position with 11 percent of the bets, followed by betting on FIFA at 7 percent and on eCricket at 5 percent. The last position in the Top 5 of popular sports for betting in India is taken by tennis with 3 percent of the bet count.
Local Citizens will Still have Their Teer Betting
Meghalaya residents will still be permitted to participate in teer betting over arrow-shooting results. Teer is a traditional method of gambling, somewhat similar to a lottery draw, and held under the rules of the Meghalaya Regulation of the Game of Arrow Shooting and the Sale of Teer Tickets Act, 2018.
Teer includes bettors wagering on the number of arrows that reach the target which is placed about 50 meters away from a team of 20 archers positioned in a semicircle.
The archers shoot volleys of arrows at the target for ten minutes, and players place their bets choosing a number between 0 and 99 trying to guess the last two digits of the number of arrows that successfully pierce the target.
If, for example, the number of hits is 256, anyone who has bet on 56 wins an amount eight times bigger than their wager.
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