Appreciation Pour in For TTD Programs

The monthly live phone-in program Dial your EO held at the Conference Hall in the TTD Administrative Building in Tirupati on Friday is flooded with laurels from pilgrim circles over the pilgrim-friendly initiatives taken up by TTD especially Post - Covid onwards.

A total of 30 callers including a NRI caller from Muscat, have given their valuable suggestions and feedback to the TTD EO Sri AV Dharma Reddy and appreciated the TTD top boss and his team for several versatile changes brought in Darshan, accommodation patterns to reduce the woes of devotees. Some excerpts

Among the callers who appreciated the efforts of TTD EO and his team in making pilgrim-friendly arrangements, Sri Harindranath Reddy, Sri Purushottam from Hyderabad, Sri Srinivas from Warangal, Narasappa from Bengaluru were there. After the late Sri PVRK Prasad, we are witnessing such an overall development in Tirumala, the caller Sri Harindranath Reddy observed.

Thanking the pilgrim callers for the words of encouragement, the EO replied, TTD mandarins and the workforce are always at helm of pilgrim service. But I appeal to all of you not to fall prey to some biased and baseless reports in a section of the media. "Your words of appreciation will boost our morale and offer services to the multitude of visiting pilgrims with more dedication", he maintained.

Callers Sri Ravindra, Smt Ruchita Devi, Smt Lavanya from Hyderabad, Sri Nageswara Reddy from Vanaparthi, Sri Eswar from Nandyal have brought to the notice of EO about the buffering issues in Srivari Seva online application. Answering the callers, the EO said, the  Srivari Seva online application was introduced to enhance transparency in the bookings and also to provide opportunity to the devotees present across the country to register as Srivari Seva volunteers. The application issues, if any, will be rectified under the TTD IT wing soon.

Other callers included Sri Prasad from Kakinada who sought EO to reprint Kavitraya Mahabharatam, login to the joint donor by Sri Murali from Bobbili, arrangements to keep wet clothes while having Varaha Swamy darshan after Pushkarini Snanam etc.

Answering all the callers, the EO said the possibilities of implementation will be verified.

A caller Sri Narendra from Medak sought EO to arrange any special darshan for the Blind to which he answered already TTD is providing separate darshan to the handicapped and senior citizens and they can avail darshan facility in that.

Devotees Sri Saikrishna, Sri Venkateswara Rao from Amalapuram, Sri Mahesh from Lingampalle suggested EO to make some arrangements to avoid congestion beyond Bangaru Vakili to which the EO replied many permutations and combinations are being tried to avoid the congestion since decades and it's a never-ending issue. However, he said, he will inspect and check for alternatives.

To the query of Sri Appanna from Visakhapatnam the EO said, maintaining hotels in Tirumala by TTD is not possible. "So we have given four Janata Canteens to APTDC fixing prices that are affordable to the devotees", he added.

JEOs Smt Gautami, Sri Veerabrahmam, CEO Sri Shanmukh Kumar, CE Sri Nageswara Rao and others were present.