TTD Chairman Partcipated in SV Museum Development Pooja

The TTD Chairman Sri B Karunakara Reddy along with the TTD EO Sri AV Dharma Reddy participated in the Puja performed towards the development works of Sri Venkateswara Museum in Tirumala on Friday.

After performing Puja, the Chairman speaking to media persons said, the spacious museum which is located in about 3 acres of land will be soon developed into a world-class museum to attract the visiting pilgrims.  

The prime objective is to showcase the glory of Sri Venkateswara Swamy in an attractive manner and educate all the pilgrims about the culture and practices of age-old traditions, historical significance and abundant heritage of Tirumala temple. The ultimate goal is to provide a divine experience of pilgrimage to a visiting pilgrim devotee”, he added.

He thanked the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and MAP Systems for coming forward to take up the Rs.145cr project on a donation basis. "There are 19 galleries out of which five are being developed by MAP Systems of Bengaluru at Rs.20crore while the remaining 14 galleries by TCS at Rs.125crore and the project is scheduled to be completed by this December '', he maintained.

Adding further he said, there are three floors besides the ground floor. The facelift for the massive SV Museum is coming up with international standards. In the Ground Floor, the MAP Systems will display Tiruveedhi, Temple Experience, Vahanas, Sevas and Sapthagiri 3D experience galleries while Venkateswara, antique stone, metal and wooden sculptures, Annamaiah copper plates and Numismatic galleries will be developed by TCS in Ground floor. They are also coming out with weapons, musical instruments and puja utensils galleries in the First floor, while the Viratpurush and Chaturvedas galleries are going allure pilgrims in the Second floor. The topmost and final third floor will have the display of Brahmanda Gallery showcasing the mightiness of the cosmos. Besides, there are 17 huge domes atop where the ardent devotees of Srivaru viz. Sri Ramanujacharya, Sri Madhwacharya, Sri Sankaracharya, Sri Annamacharya, Sri Purandara Dasa, Smt Vengamamba and many others will be displayed apart from the important characters and episodes from epics like Srimadramayana, Mahabharata, Bhagavata, Bhagavat Gita, Puranas and many more.

The need of the hour is to bring up the forgotten past glory of Sanatana practices, into a glorious existence for the future generations and the SV Museum is going to fulfill this great spiritual task soon, he confidently said.

Earlier TTD EO explained to the Chairman about the plan and design of the facelift structure of SV Museum through the display. 

CEO SVBC Sri Shanmukh Kumar, SE 2 Sri Jagadeeshwar Reddy, Museum Officer Sri Krishna Reddy, Health Officer Dr Sridevi, Chief Audit Officer Sri Sesha Sailendra, VGOs Sri Bali Reddy, Sri Giridhara Rao, Sri Bheemshekar of TCS and his team members, Sri BV Sateesh of MAP Systems along with his team and others were also present.