2600 Rooms to be made Available for Devotees in Tirupati

Tirumala, Feb.2, 2018: After his monthly interactive program of Dial Your EO with the devotees through over on tele conferencing, the TTD Executive Officer Anil Kumar Singhal showcased the TTDs drive to service the devotees coming in large numbers to Tirumala.

Highlights of the interaction with media at the Annamayya Bhavan, Tirumala this morning later on are as below:

· Successful conduction of Ratha Sapthami festival providing darshan to large number of devotes by providing annaprasadams, snacks, drinking water, butter milk etc., and thanked the TTD employees, Vigilance, Police and Srivari Se akulu for their service.

· Appealed to devotees Brahmotsavams in local TTD sub temples: Brahmotsavam at Srinivasa Mangapuram Sri KVS Temple from Feb 6-14. From Feb 6-15 at Sri Kapileswara Swamy Temple, Maha Sivarathri on Feb 13.

· TTD issuing special tokens for aged, challenged, mothers with 5 years kids for darshan two days in a month. On Feb 13 and 20 for aged and challenged 4000 tokens and Feb 12 and 21 for parents with 5 year old kinds.

· 588 complaints received on the innovative FMS call center (launched from Nov 23) for accommodation and room allotments in Tirumala. Call center operated 24x7 on January 24 for Ratha sapthami.

· Online booking of Kalyana mandapam commenced from January 24 on an experimental basis for 39 Kalyana mandapams of Chittoor district.

· VQC inside corridor pillars removed to regulate crowd management and avoid stampedes.

· SSD system of queues for sarva darshan facilitating smooth darshans.

· 45 tones of foreign currency of which 18 tons belonged to Malaysia, which will be exchanged with banks in 15 days.

· Talking to RBI for exchange of 25 paisa coins in Hundi.

· Promoting social forestry with perfumed flower plants all along Alipiri footpath, TTD roads, junctions etc. by April end.

· 2600 rooms to be made available for devotees in Tirupati with more Rest houses.

The TTD also inspected the model counters set up for the SSD time slot token issue and directed officials to prepare two models of such counters and make them more people friendly with sign boards and orderly queue lines.

Among others CVSO Ake Ravi Krishna, TTD Chief Engineer Chandrasekhar Reddy, SE Ramachandra Reddy and other Engineering dept officials participated in the inspection.