Pooja to Human Hair Storage Building Held in Tirupati

Tirupati, 4 December 2017: Special Puja has been performed to the new Human Hair storage godown which was built at a cost of Rs.6cr in Tirupati on Monday.

Speaking on this occasion, the TTD EO Sri Anil Kumar Singhal said, "henceforth Sorting, drying and storage will be carried out in a Scientific way in this godown. Every year nearly 330 tonnes of human hair is generated from the hair offerings made by pilgrims. Segregation of hair takes place in first Floor, Storage in Second floor and the process of drying in Third Floor. Every year we are procuring Rs.100 crores out of e-Auction of human hair. To make this e-platform more effective we also had negotiations with human hair exporters and manufacturers", EO added.

TTD JEOs Sri KS Sreenivasa Raju, Sri P Bhaskar, CVSO Sri A Ravikrishna, CE Sri Chandrasekhar Reddy, SE I Sri M Ramesh Reddy, EEs Sri Manoharam, Sri Srinivasa Rao were also present.