AP CM Reviews With TTD Officials

The Honourable Chief Minister of AP Sri Chandrababu Naidu held a review meeting TTD officials on various activities.

The meeting took place at SPRH on Saturday. He emphasised that devotees feedback on TTD services should be focused and special efforts be made to collect their opinions and study its feasibility for implementation.

He asked the state endowment minister Sri Anam Ramnarayan Reddy to implement feedback mechanism from the devotees at all premiere temples on the lines of Tirumala for improving facilities to pilgrims.

The chief minister instructed TTD officials to focus on elevating and promoting the glory, sanctity and devotees faith in Tirumala shrine and only Govinda Nama Smarana should resound in Tirumala.

He said the Tirumala is the holiest spiritual hub of the country and as such every one should strive to enhance the glory of lord Sri Venkateswara and also the sanctity and serenity of Tirumala.

The chief minister insisted that there should be no compromise in service to common devotees and VIP culture should be reduced to normalcy and the everyone should respect the sentiments of devotees and act accordingly.

Devotees should go home with good memories of their spiritual experience at Tirumala, he asserted.

Among others he directed officials to make advance plan on water availability, increase forest coverage from present 72% to 80% with a 5 year plan, Bio-diversity protection measures of TTD forests, continue the quality of laddu and Anna Prasadam as devotees are happy with present standards with the use of best quality raw materials in preparation of laddu and Anna Prasadams.

He also suggested to enhance the standards of Srivari Seva by training sevaks with prominent spiritual organisations and improve their services to pilgrims.

Besides TTD EO Sri  J Shyamala Rao and Additional EO Sri Venkaiah Choudhary, all department heads participated in the review meeting.