Pilgrims laud TTD EO for recent initiatives

Tirumala: The pilgrim callers poured in laurels for the recent initiatives brought in the last one-and-a-half months by the TTD Executive Officer J Syamala Rao in increasing the number of SSD tokens, enhancing the quality of Annaprasadam and Laddu Prasadam in Tirumala.

While attending to the pilgrim callers during his maiden one-hour live phone in “Dial Your EO” programme held at Annamaiah Bhavan on Friday, the TTD EO answered 33 devotees’ calls which mostly included on the darshan and accommodation bookings, Srivari Seva online services, quality of Laddu and Dharma Prachara activities.

Answering to the callers, the EO said many changes were brought recently for the benefit of common devotees. The SSD tokens have been increased from 1.05 lakh to 1.47 lakh tokens per week to avoid waiting time for pilgrims in queue lines besides restricting the Srivani tickets on offline to 1000. He also said the quality of Annaprasadam being served at Matrusri Tarigonda Vengamamba Annaprasadam Complex and Srivari Laddu Prasadams have also been enhanced. Even the big and small hotels, other eateries in Tirumala are being instructed to serve qualitative and hygienic food at affordable prices to the multitude of visiting pilgrims in Tirumala as the health safety of devotees is also one of the top most priorities of the TTD.

Some other suggestions from pilgrim callers included review on the lease policy of TTD Kalyana Mandapams, safeguarding the TTD land located at Tiruttani, unhygienic environment prevailing in Sapthagiri Rest House in Tirumala, darshan to other Para Military Forces through Supatham, route maps in Dharma Ratham buses and many more. Answering all the callers, the EO said the suggestions will be reviewed and appropriate decision will be taken after a thorough analysis with the concerned departments.

Additional EO Ch Venkaiah Chowdhary, JEOs Goutami, Veerabrahmam, CEO SVBC Shanmukh Kumar, CE Nageswara Rao and others were present.