Central and State IB Teams to Visit Tirumala Next Week - TTD Eo

The massive mass cleaning of Ghat Roads and Footpath routes program taken up by TTD on May 13 will be attended by former Chief Justice of India, Justice NV Ramana, said TTD EO Sri AV Dharma Reddy.

Speaking to media persons after the Dial your EO program at Annamaiah Bhavan in Tirumala on Friday, the EO said, in Sundara Tirumala-Suddha Tirumala program, so far about 6000 employees and nearly 3000 srivari sevaks have voluntarily participated in the last 12 days and successfully carried out the cleaning mission. "On Saturday, in the mass plastic-free Tirumala program, along with the TTD employees, district and police, corporation departments are also taking part expressing their solidarity to the TTD program. "District Collector, SP, Joint Collector, Swachandhra Pradesh Corporation Advisor, Commissioner, Judges and many more are also taking part in the program voluntarily", he added.

"We have divided the up and down ghats and both the footpath routes into various sectors and deployed in-charge officials for each sector. In up ghat nearly 15 supporting staff for every sector and down ghat 30 will be there in the mass cleaning", he maintained.

On Ananda Nilayam video leak on social media, the EO said, a devotee from Khammam by name Rahul Reddy was caught hold by TTD vigilance through the CCTV footage and he will be interrogated by Tirupati police. "Action will be initiated against the on-duty security staff at the scanning areas for the lapse checking on that day. The CVSO is also instructed to study a more mechanised and quick way of checking akin to the Airport Model so that we can provide darshan to not less than 5000-5500 devotees in an hour after thorough checking in the scan area. For that we have also consulted Central and State IB teams who will be visiting Tirumala by next week", he maintained.

Both the JEOs Sri Sada Bhargavi, Sri Veerabrahmam, CVSO Sri Narasimha Kishore and others were present.