Substitute Acacia With Traditional Plants - TTD Eo

To preserve and protect the flora and bio-diversity in the Sesha Chala forest ranges, the TTD EO Sri AV Dharma Reddy on Wednesday urged the officials concerned to speed up the program of replacing the  Acacia with traditional plants.

Addressing a review meeting at the conference hall of the TTD administrative building in Tirupati on Wednesday he directed officials to extend the model project of substituting the Acacia in one hectare of land to larger tracts in the forest belt in a phased manner. He tasked officials to submit a comprehensive report on the program.

Among others, he instructed officials to take up beautification of Tirumala roads to give a pleasant atmosphere to devotees, speed up the Tarigonda Vengamamba Brindavanam works, digitisation of old TTD records and destroy the rest of unwanted ones, complete the gold lacing works of Sri Govinda raja swami temple Gopura by October and a comprehensive action plan to transform the Goshala in Tirupati on experts recommendation into a role model institution.

Later the TTD EO reviewed the Gopuja program underway in TTD local temples and made valuable suggestions to officials.

TTD JeOS Smt Sada Bhargavi, Sri Veerabrahmam, CVSO Sri Narasimha Kishore, FA& CAO Sri O Balaji, Chief Engineer Sri Nageswara  Rao and others were present.