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12.3.24

Important Decisions in the TTD Board Meeting

 











TTD Trust Board meeting was held at Annamaiah Bhavan in Tirumala on Monday under the Chairmanship of Sri Bhumana Karunakara Reddy. The key decisions are as follows.


•  Approval to create 479 nurse posts to provide better medical services in view of the increasing number of patients in SVIMS  Hospital.


 -In the past in TTD, most of the recruitment of contract/outsourcing employees was done following their requirement in the respective areas and not through any notification, rule of reservation (RVR). To regularize the services of such employees as per G.O.No.114, the TTD board has decided to send a report on the same relaxing some of the rules requesting the state government.

 

- Approval towards the construction of hostels for providing accommodation to all the female students admitted in TTD colleges without any recommendation.


 - Tender approval towards the construction of 10 lifts in PAC-1 for the convenience of devotees in Tirumala at a cost of Rs.1.88 crores.


 - Sanction of security fencing left in the outer cordon area of Sri Padmavati Rest House, similarly, Balaji Nagar East side at Rs.1.50 crores.


 - Approval to take up development works of the remaining 184 quarters of old C type, D type, new C type and D type quarters of TTD employees in Tirumala with Rs.14 crores.


 - Approval towards the gold malam of the Makara Toranam in front of Bhashyakarlu in Tirupati Sri Govindarajaswamy temple, Tiruvabharans of Sri Parthasarathiswamy and Srikalyana Venkateswara Swamy.


TTD has a Tier 3 Data Center and Disaster Recovery Center for IT services.  As per IT standard protocol, tech replacement should be done every seven years as part of the lifecycle management process.  As part of this, a sanction of over Rs.12 crore towards the maintenance of data centres for five years has been approved.


 - There are 15 historic and ancient temples, 13 temples built by TTD and 22 temples taken over by TTD.  Permission towards undertaking necessary development works in these temples through SRIVANI Trust funds.


 - An ex gratia of Rs.5 lakhs to the family of Tirumala Srivari Temple Paricharika Sri Yathirajan Narasimhan who recently died in an accident on the ghat road.


Special Principal Secretary of Endowments Department Sri. Karikalavalavan, TTD EO Sri AV. Dharma Reddy, JEO Sri. Veerabraham and several board members participated in this meeting.

Ex-Board Members Of TTD Should Follow the Rules for Darshan of Srivaru

 




TTD Chairman Sri Bhumana Karunakar Reddy said that the board has given opportunity to the former members of the TTD Board to have darshan of Srivaru with their family members (wife, children, mother and father alone) only for a few times in a year.


However, he said that some of the former board members are often seen violating this rule by bringing others along with them other than their family members for darshan of Srivaru frequently. 


He said the former board members should follow the guidelines otherwise will not be allowed to have darshan of Srivaru if they bring others along with them instead of their family members.

Rallapalli was an Exponent in Music and Literature - Scholars

 









TTD run Annamacharya project Director Dr Akella Vibhishana Sharma advocated that eminent scholar late Sri Rallapalli Ananthakrishna Sharma was an accomplished personality in both music and literature. 


The TTD Annamacharya Project and All Hindu Projects jointly organized the 45th death anniversary of Sri Rallapalli Ananthakrishna Sharma at Annamacharya Kalamandiram in Tirupati on Monday evening. 


Earlier, the TTD officials paid floral tributes to the statue of Sri Rallapalli Anantha Krishna Sharma on Sri Padmavati Mahila University Road in the morning.


Dr. Vibhishana Sharma who presided over the program said that in 1949, TTD handed over the responsibility of Sri Venkateswara Oriental Research Institute to Sri Rallapalli.  He is said to have composed hundreds of Sankirtans besides fixing the scriptures from the copper plates that were identified from the Tallapaka shelf in the Tirumala Srivari Temple. 


It is said that only people like Sri Rallapalli, who are skilled in Shabdarthas, can solve Annamayya's sankirtanas well.  He explained that they experienced the mysticism of the music and lyrics of Annamayya's hymns and presented them to the world. 


Later famous poet Sri Puttaparthi Narayanacharya said that Sri Rallapalli was compared to  Sage Vyasa.


Afterwards, Acharya Rallapalli Deepta, the granddaughter of Sri Rallapalli and Head of the Department of English, National Sanskrit University, spoke on the topic "Sri Rallapalli's Vaidushyam".  She said that Sri Rallapalli has solved and written about two thousand Annamayya Sankirtans.  


Renowned singer Smt. NC Sridevi spoke on the topic "Rallapalli Vari Sweya Kritulu".  


DEO Dr. Bhaskar Reddy and others participated in this program.

11.3.24

Chilkuri Sushil Rao’s “Hero of the sea’ documentary wins award at 8th Indian World Film Festival in Hyderabad

 





 



A documentary titled “Hero Of The Sea” produced and directed by Chilkuri Sushil Rao of Hyderabad has won an award at the 8th Indian World Film Festival-2024 held in Hyderabad on March 10. It got an ‘honourable jury mention’ at the awards ceremony. 

The documentary focuses on the Indian Navy’s firm action against pirates who in recent times have tried to attack ships. The documentary showcases the willpower of five Indians who were taken captive by pirates in Nigeria in 2019, to stay strong and how they survived the ordeal. They were let free only after 70 days with the intervention of the authorities.

More than 200 entries were received for the film festival organised by Noida-based Mumbai Box Office. Out of these 83 were officially selected. From these, the winners were picked by an international jury in various categories including feature films, feature documentaries, short documentaries, animation, documentaries and music videos. 

“The Hero Of The Sea” was picked by the jury for an ‘honourable mention award’.

The winners in all categories were presented mementos and certificates were presented  by D C Singh, chief advisor and Rambhul Singh, film director and founder of Mini Box Office.

This is the eighth year in which the festival was organised in Hyderabad. Throughout the year, film festivals are organised in eight big festivals in different cities in the country with some of them having been organised for the 12th year in succession. 

At the awards ceremony, Sushil Rao was also presented with an award that he had won at the 12th Mumbai International Film Festival organsied in December 2023 for  documentary “Oscar Challagariga” which got a Special Festival Mention in the festival. A ‘Certificate of Excellence’ was also presented to Sushil Rao for his short documentary entry “Human Feelings in Robot Wars’ which got selected in the 11th Noida International Film Festival-24 held in January. 

Daniel Mendoza Leal of Colombia‘ received an award for his Spanish film ‘Matarife La Pelicula’. Emi Ogawa of Japan received two awards that  ‘Samurai Tiger’ made by Miyaobi Pictures won at the 11th Noida International Film Festival-24.

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Vahana Sevas Concludes with Ravanasura Vahanam

 










The vahana sevas and annual brahmotsavams in Kapileswara Swamy temple concludes RAVANASURA Vahanam on sunday evening.


Later Dhwajavarohanam was also observed lowering the flag on the temple pillar.


Temple Deputy EO Sri Devendra Babu, AEO Sri Subbaraju, Superintendent Sri Bhupathi, Temple Inspectors Sri Ravikumar, Sri Balakrishna and devotees participated in this program.

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