Maharashtra Bumper Lotteries

What the Maharashtra bumper lotteries are

Alongside its weekly and monthly lottery draws, the Maharashtra State Lottery runs a set of "bumper" draws tied to the state's festival calendar. These are one-off special draws with bigger tickets and much bigger prizes than the regular games. While a weekly draw ticket might cost INR 20, a bumper ticket costs INR 200, and the top prizes run into crores rather than lakhs⁴.

The bumper lineup over a typical year includes:

• The Ganpati Bumper around the Ganesh festival
• The Dasara Bumper
• The Diwali Bhavyatam at Diwali
• The Natal Navin Varsha Bhavyatam at the New Year
• Other seasonal draws such as the Maharashtra Din Bumper, the Christmas New Year Bumper and the Gyanganga Bumper⁵

The word "Bhavyatam" means "grandest", and it marks the two flagship draws: Diwali and New Year.

The headline figures give a sense of the scale. The Ganpati Bumper carries a first prize of INR 1 crore, eligible once 90 percent of tickets are sold, with a total prize pool of INR 1,27,50,000. The Dasara Bumper also offers INR 1 crore, split as two prizes of INR 50 lakh each, with at least one guaranteed, and the same INR 1,27,50,000 total pool. The Christmas New Year Bumper offers INR 50 lakh as two prizes of INR 25 lakh, with a total pool of INR 79,50,000, and the Maharashtra Din Bumper has a total prize pool of INR 50,36,000⁵.

The two Bhavyatam draws are the stars of the calendar, and the rest of this page focuses on them in detail. If you want the smaller weekly and monthly games, see Maharashtra Monthly Lotteries and the wider India Lottery page.

The festival draws and their dates

The bumper draws are pegged to festival dates, so the calendar shifts a little each year. Recent and scheduled draws give you the pattern:

Ticket price: INR 200

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All of these draws take place at 4:00 PM. The Diwali Bhavyatam was drawn on November 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM¹, the Natal Navin Varsha Bhavyatam on January 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM², and the Ganpati Bumper result also records a 4:00 PM draw time⁷. The Maharashtra Din Bumper was scheduled for May 8, 2026 at 4:00 PM⁸.

The state government also runs draws on every weekday except three national holidays, so the bumper games sit on top of a busy regular schedule⁹. The full draw schedule is published on the official lottery website⁹.

Diwali Bhavyatam: tickets, series and prize structure

The Diwali Bhavyatam is the biggest of Maharashtra's bumper draws. The 2025 edition printed 300,000 tickets in total, divided into 5 series (DI-01 to DI-05) of 60,000 tickets each. Ticket numbers within each series run from 10000 to 69999, and tickets are issued in books of 100¹.

Each ticket costs INR 200, including GST¹.

The prize structure

The first prize is INR 2 crore, paid as two prizes of INR 1 crore each, and at least one of the two is guaranteed. The total prize pool across all series is INR 2,55,00,000, spread over 9,672 prizes, plus a seller bonus of INR 2,00,000 attached to the first prize¹.

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The structure is designed so that most of the prize money sits at the top, but a very large number of tickets win something small. With 9,672 prizes across 300,000 tickets, roughly one ticket in 31 wins a prize, though the overwhelming majority of those are the INR 400 and INR 500 levels¹.

The previous year's edition, drawn on November 12, 2024, was slightly smaller: 250,000 tickets in 5 series of 50,000, with numbers from 10000 to 59999, a first prize of INR 1 crore as a single common prize, and a total prize value of INR 2,20,50,000 across 12,790 prizes per series count. That edition also included an incentive prize of INR 2,00,000 each for the winning number of the first prize in the four series that did not take the main jackpot¹⁰.

Natal Navin Varsha (New Year) draw: tickets, series and prize structure

The Natal Navin Varsha Bhavyatam is the New Year counterpart, drawn on January 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM. "Natal" is the Marathi word for Christmas, so the draw bridges the Christmas and New Year period².

This draw is smaller than the Diwali edition. It prints 100,000 tickets in total, divided into 10 series of 10,000 tickets each. Ticket numbers run from 0000 to 9999 in each series, and tickets come in books of 100. The ticket price is the same INR 200, including GST².

The prize structure

The first prize is INR 50 lakh, paid as two prizes of INR 25 lakh each, with at least one guaranteed. The total prize pool across all series is INR 80,00,000².

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The 2025 edition, drawn on January 3, 2025, had the same shape: 100,000 tickets in 10 series, INR 200 tickets, and a first prize of INR 50 lakh as two prizes of INR 25 lakh, this time conditional on 90 percent of tickets being sold. That edition carried 3,902 prizes totaling INR 85,50,000, plus a seller bonus of INR 50,000 on the first prize, split as INR 25,000 per winning series¹¹.

Ticket prices and where sales are allowed

Every Maharashtra bumper ticket costs INR 200, including GST. That price is consistent across the Diwali Bhavyatam, the Natal Navin Varsha Bhavyatam, the Ganpati Bumper, the Dasara Bumper, the Maharashtra Din Bumper and the Christmas New Year Bumper⁵.

Sales are restricted to Maharashtra State. The draw rules state plainly that tickets are to be sold only within Maharashtra, and the words "For sale only in Maharashtra State" are printed on the tickets themselves¹. So you buy these tickets from agents inside the state, and the practical takeaway for anyone outside Maharashtra is that they cannot legally be sold to you there.

For the public, tickets come through authorized retail agents. The state publishes a list of authorized agents, which includes sellers across the state, from Metro Lotter in Mumbai to Mahalaxmi Lottery in Nandurbar¹². Sellers buy their stock in bulk from the Maharashtra State Lottery office in Vashi: the Diwali Bhavyatam tickets were made available to sellers from the Deputy Director (Finance and Accounts) office at the APMC Market in Vashi, Navi Mumbai¹⁰, and the Natal Navin Varsha tickets from the same APMC Market location¹¹.

Bulk buyers get a discount on the face value. For the 2025 Diwali Bhavyatam, purchases of 500 to 50,000 tickets carried an 18 percent discount, with a further special discount of 2 percent (excluding GST) for wholesale sellers who actually buy draw tickets. For the Natal Navin Varsha draw, purchases of 500 to 10,000 tickets carried a 16 percent discount including GST¹. These matter to agents rather than to someone buying a few tickets at a shop.

How the draws are conducted

The bumper draws are conducted in public, using an electric draw machine. The machine works with wheels carrying random numbers, each wheel bearing the digits 0 to 9, and it is operated by a draw panel. For the first prize, a separate drum is used with discs for each series: one pouch is drawn to announce the winning series letter, and then the winning number is drawn digit by digit¹.

For the smaller prizes that pay on the last four digits, the winning numbers are drawn by computer using a random method. In the Diwali Bhavyatam, the seventh prize uses 300 numbers on the last four digits per series drawn randomly, and in the Natal Navin Varsha draw the seventh prize uses 325 full-number winning numbers drawn randomly across all series¹.

The draws take place at the office of the Deputy Director (Finance and Accounts), Maharashtra State Lottery, at the APMC Market in Vashi, Navi Mumbai. The Ganpati Bumper result, for example, records the draw location as that office, at T-Block, 1st Floor, Plot No. 7, Dana Bazar, APMC Market, Sector 19-B, Vashi, Navi Mumbai 400 705⁷. Daily draws at the office run from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM¹³.

Official results are published on the website lottery.maharashtra.gov.in and also printed in select newspapers³. Always check the official site rather than relying on a shop notice.

Claiming a prize: rules for winners

The claiming rules are the same across the Maharashtra State Lottery games, and they are strict about the ticket itself.

Keep the original ticket. A prize winner must submit the original ticket to the government to claim any prize, and only one prize may be claimed on any ticket¹. So if your ticket happens to match more than one winning number, you get the single highest prize it qualifies for, not several. Do not sign the ticket until you are submitting your claim.

Where to claim depends on the amount. Prizes up to INR 10,000 can be claimed from the retail agent you bought the ticket from. Prizes above INR 10,000 must be claimed from the Deputy Director, Maharashtra State Lottery, Vashi, Navi Mumbai³.

You have 90 days. Claims must be made within 90 days of the draw date, along with the original ticket³. After that, the claim lapses.

The office address. Claims above INR 10,000 go to the Deputy Director (Finance and Accounts), Maharashtra State Lottery, T-Block, 1st Floor, Plot No. 7, Dana Bazar, APMC Market, Sector 19-B, Vashi, Navi Mumbai 400 705⁷. That is the same complex where sellers buy their stock, so it is the hub of the whole operation.

A practical note on the big prizes: because the original ticket is the only proof of a win, treat a bumper ticket like a bearer bond. A INR 1 crore Diwali ticket in your pocket is worth INR 1 crore only if it survives intact until you hand it over in Vashi.