Lord Venkateswara Swamy Vari Temple Opens up at Kanyakumari

Kanyakumari, 27 January 2019: The doors of Sri Venkateswara Swamy temple opened up for the darshanam of devotees on Sunday who have been eagerly waiting since long time after Maha Kumbhabhishekam ceremony in the auspicious Kumbha Lagnam between 7.30am and 9am.

Speaking on this celestial occasion, TTD EO Sri Anil Kumar Singhal said, the construction of temple in the famous pilgrim centre of Kanya kumari was mulled five years ago. "The construction works at Rs.22.50crores picked up from the past two and a half years and today the temple was opened in a grandeur way", he maintained.

The EO also briefed the media about the various other development activities which are in offing in Tamilnadu including the construction of Sri Padmavathi Devi temple at Chennai with an estimated Rs.5.75crores. "We have also approached Tamil Nadu Government to grant 5 to 10 acres of land to construct Sri Venkateswara Swamy temple", he said.

As per the instructions of Honourable CM of AP whose wish is to construct Sri Venkateswara Divyakshetrams at many places, we have been in touch with Chief Secretaries of all states. The temple which was opened at Kurukshetra is witnessing good number of devotees turnout. Very soon we are going open up Srivari temple at Hyderabad in Telengana", he added.

Apart from these activities, we have been presenting silk vastrams to many ancient temples in Tamilnadu as a tradition. Out of 10lakh odd sevakulu who have rendered service so far in Srivari seva, over 1.80lakhs are from Tamilnadu only, he added.

TTD Joint Executive Officer Sri Pola Bhaskar, TTD Board Members Sri Sri Krishna, Sri Peddi Reddy, Sri Rudraraju Padma Raju, TTD Chief Vigilance and Security Officer Sri Gopinath Jetti, TTD Officials and large number of took part.