TTD Plans a Green Carpet Welcome for its Visitors

Tirupati, 30 Apr. 19: To attract the tens of thousands of visitors who throng the temple city of Tirupati for pilgrimage, the TTD is contemplating to offer a "Green carpet Welcome" to its visitors by developing bio wall on a huge scale.

During is inspection at Alipiri, Sapthagiri Junctions and Padmavathi Nilayam (PAN) amenities complex on Tuesday, Tirupati JEO Sri B Lakshmikantham said, the roads laid by TTD in Tirupati stretches to about 26 kilometers. This includes nine arterial roads. We want to develop green cover in a big way leaving the area which falls under Garuda Varadhi and smart city corporation limits and we have been intensively working on this from the past one and a half months. By June, Tirupati will don a complete new look", JEO maintained.

Adding further JEO said, the Alipiri junction will soon get a new look. On a trial run we made electrification to Garuda statue which grabbed the attention of denizens. Similarly we want to develop all the junctions under our purview, he added. 

Tall trees like Sypholobium japonicum(Pogada), Spathodea and peltophorum popularly known as the  Flame of the Forest have been planted in PAN building area at Tiruchanoor since the area has concrete floor. While the Bougainvillea have come up very well in the junctions. Apart from this, planting of Gardenias (aromatic plants) are all underway at some places. On the whole, the temple city will provide ethereal look to the millions of devotees who throng this place as a part of their pilgrimage", JEO asserted.

DFO Sri Phani Kumar Naidu, EE Sri Satyanarayana were also present.