High Level Security Meeting Held

A high level meeting on Security Audit was held at Annamaiah Bhavan in Tirumala on Tuesday in the presence of Sri Harish Kumar Gupta, IPS, Principal secretary (Home) Govt of AP. 

Top brass officials from both TTD and Police Department and other uniform forces participated in the meeting to discuss on how to enhance the Security set up in Tirumala in view of increased pilgrim and vehicular traffic post Covid Pandemic.

The Principal Secretary (Home) strongly opined that there is a need for a comprehensive security audit and all the security forces should be brought under a single command for effective execution of foolproof security cover to Tirumala. 

Earlier, both the Chief Vigilance and Security Officer of TTD Sri Narasimha Kishore and Tirupati SP Sri Parameshwar Reddy presented PowerPoint Presentation separately giving a detailed picture about the existing security set up with respect to Tirumala, its precincts and the areas where the security need to be beefed up keeping in view the safety and security of the multitude of the visiting pilgrims as well increased vehicular traffic in the Hill Town from the past two years. 

DIG Anantapuram Range Sri Ammi Reddy, OSD ISW Sri Sasidhar Reddy, many other officials from State Intelligence Bureau, Intelligence Security Wing, Octopus, SPF, district police, Forest, Fire and other forces were also present.

On behalf of TTD, JEO Sri Veerabrahmam, senior officers including CE Sri Nageswara Rao, SE 2 Sri Jagadeeshwar Reddy, Health Officer Dr Sridevi, VGOs Sri Bali Reddy, Sri Manohar, Sri Giridhar Rao and others were also present.