Heavy Pilgrim Rush at Tirumala

Heavy weekend rush coupled with a series of holidays which began since Thursday has been continuing in Tirumala. By the time of 6pm on Saturday, the lines are getting added at Silathoranam and for tokenless devotees it is taking approximately 30 hours for darshan of Sri Venkateswara Swamy.

In spite of repeated announcements about the time at Tirupati Railway station, bus station, Alipiri, the pilgrim crowd is swarming to Hill Town. TTD has made elaborate arrangements of Annprasadam, water and security to the multitude of visiting pilgrims. On Saturday itself, till 5pm, Annaprasadam was served to 80 thousand pilgrims in MTVAC and another 80 in outside queue lines. 

About 2500 Srivari Sevaks have been deployed to render services to the waiting pilgrims in all these areas.

Under the instructions of TTD EO Sri AV Dharma Reddy, in the supervision of JEO Sri Veerabrahmam, all the senior officers of TTD in Tirumala have been monitoring the facilities from time to time and ensuring hassle-free darshan to devotees.