AP CM Inaugurated Centralized Vakulamata Kitchen in Tirumala

The Honourable Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Sri N Chandra Babu Naidu has opened an advanced and furnished kitchen located on the Outer Ring Road on the rear side of Panchajanyam Rest House in Tirumala on Saturday.

About the Centralized Kitchen:

The kitchen costing around Rs.13.45cr is designed and constructed in a plinth area of 37,245 sq.ft with modern facilities for cooking, storing food grains, Vegetables & Milk – in the Ground Floor, preparation of food in the First Floor, Steam-based Cooking with boilers run by LPG and an exhaust system for providing ambient weather for the workers.

Purpose:

Whenever there is a heavy influx of pilgrims during holidays and in the weekends, this new centralized kitchen has been planned to serve 1.20 lakh pilgrims, the prepared food i.e. pulihora, sambar rice, pongal and upma on a day at the Counters already established at CRO- Central Reception Office, PAC- I, Ram Bagicha Rest House Bus Stand, Food counters along the outer Q lines.

Endowments Minister Sri Rama Narayana Reddy, Local MLA Sri Srinivasulu, Additional EO Sri Ch Venkaiah Chowdary, JEOs Smt Goutami, Sri Veerabrahmam, CVSO Sri Sridhar, CE Sri Satyanarayana, DyEO Annaprasadam Sri Rajendra, Special Catering Officer Sri GLN Shastry and others were present.