“Satta” an Indian term for betting and gambling has been around for a long time in Indian history. This term can be found in the history since ages. If you don’t know what it is; basically, Gambling is the wagering of money or something which has value with an uncertain outcome with the intent of winning money or material goods. In another way, gambling can be conducted with materials which have a value, but are not real money. For example, players of marble game might wager marbles, and likewise games of pogs or small discs, trading cards and in India most popularly known as Satta Matka.
It is pretty popular game in India, in the 21st century, more people have started making cash bets upon betting and gambling in India. The haters of gambling claim that it leads to crime, corruption and money laundering while regulated gambling system in India can be a huge source of revenue for the state. Casinos in Goa contributed Rs. 135 crores to the state revenue in 2013.
As it seems popular and wealthy game which can make you very rich in just matter of time. Learning about history of something often consist of the first thing — which is knowing what it is first.
What is SattaMatka?
Satta-Matka is a type of lottery which originally includes betting on the opening and closing rates of cotton transmitted from the New York cotton Exchange. It continues before the era of independence. In the 1960s, it replaced with other ways of generating random numbers, including pulling slips from a large pot known as a Matka or playing cards.
Indian Matka, a game of luck, satta matka is based on random number selection and bidding. However to win you need the lucky number. A major betting trend in the sub continent the game of sattamatka requires that you choose the right number for winning the game and becoming the satta king in the process. It will also be highly rewarding as the winner takes all in this game and that could be huge financial gain for you.
Basically Satta matka result are based on the right choice of the number. It is the same for both formats of the game; the Kalyan matka introduced by Kalyanji Bhagat in 1962 and Worli Matka introduced by Ratan Khatri in 1964. During the flourishing of textile mills many mill , orkers played matka, resulting in bookies opening their shops in and around the mill areas, specifically located in Central Mumbai. Central Mumbai now has become the hub of matka business.
In the period of mid-90’s matka business reach its peak. As it is on it’s peaat all of a sudden, the Mumbai police’s started raiding matka centers. The massive crackdown on the matka hubs forced dealers to shift their base to the city’s outskirts. Most of them moved to Gujarat, Rajasthan and other states. Because there was no major source of betting in the city, the poor class gamblers got attracted to other sources of gambling such as lotteries. Meanwhile, the rich gamblers began betting on cricket matches.
As of 1995 there was more than 2 thousand bookies in the city and towns, but since then the numbers have decreased to less than 3 hundread and the average monthly turnover has remained around Rs. 100 crore. Maharashtra is today’s matka business center hub.
In August 2015, Goa’s BJP legislator Vishnu Wagh demanded to legalize matka game. He argued that big-moneyed gambling in casinos is legal but matka isn’t, Wagh said gambling should not be considered by class of living style. “There should not be a class element when we look at gambling. We have to see if we can legalize matka,” Wagh said.
By then, the term “Satta-Matka” wasn’t new in our country. Satta was the reason behind the biggest war in the history of our nation “The War of Mahabharata”.
There are various types of different games in Kalyan Satta Matka such as Milan Day and Milan Night, Rajdhani Day and Rajdhani Night, Jodi Pana, Boss Matka etc.
Matka made an impact over so many lives that even Bollywood couldn’t have stayed away from it.
In the mid-70’s, the crime thriller “Dharmatma” was directed and produced by Firoz Khan. The title character in the movie was inspired by the matka king Ratan Khatri. It is said that Firoz Khan sat down with Ratan Khatri to understand the gambling world in detail.
After that matka is not only a gambling world, there is an additional tinge of glamour in it. After all, it is all about your LUCK!!