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TTD allocates funds for purchases, ignores devotees’ interests
TTD allocates funds for purchases, ignores devotees’ interests, TTD Board meeting, M G Gopal. The board adopted a resolution to construct a multi-storeyed car parking in Tirumala at a cost of Rs.50 crore.
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Tirupati: The TTD Board meeting convened here on Sunday appeared to be mainly to allocation of funds and take decisions on purchases, ignoring the interests of devotees, like stay and facilities besides Lord’s ‘darshan’. It showed accounts of crores spent out of donations and gifts offered by devotees.
The comment of TTD Executive Officer M G Gopal that the board members were selling the ‘darshan’ tickets raised a storm. Some members objected to his branding of all members in this category and insisted on a discussion. This led to arguments among the members, chairman Kanumuri Bapiraju and TTD officials.
The meeting, at Annamayya Bhavan chaired by Bapiraju, allocated funds for purchase of 22 lakh conconuts, 3,000 tins of sunflower oil (Rs.5 crore) , 2,500 kg cardamom (Rs.2.57 crore), giving the contract to a Kerala government firm, 81 lakh kg sugar (Rs.5.95 crore). The board adopted a resolution setting apart Rs.65 lakh for making ‘Vakshasthala Lakshmi’ of the Lord in Srinivasamangapuram.
The meeting approved tenders for the construction of a ’Annadana satram’at Tiruchanur a cost of Rs.5 crore from out of funds donated by devotees. It gave green signal to make use of 33 kg gold for preparing a ‘Sahasranama Mala’, with the donation of Rs.11 crore made by Ramalinga Raju.
The board adopted a resolution to construct a multi-storeyed car parking in Tirumala at a cost of Rs.50 crore. It approved construction of a building here costing Rs.6 crore to store hair offered by devotees.
The meeting appointed two committees to decide the rate of house-sites of TTD employees and on facilities being provided to the staff at SVIMS. It decided to release a one-time grant to the staff, without considering the number of times they avail of treatment and allocated Rs.1.4 crore for the old age home of Lakshminarasimha Swamy Temple at Mattapalli, Nalgonda. It adopted a resolution to release an advertisement at the national level on tenders worth more than Rs.3 crore.
The board decided to purchase three-fourths of ‘prasadam’ ghee from contractors and the rest from the Tirupati Balaji Diary.
