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Trial run of advance booking for `300 darshan tickets from today
Advance booking of Rs.300 special entry ‘darshan’ tickets will commence from August 30 on trial basis in the Internet booking and e-darshan counters, TTD Executive Officer M G Gopal said here on Tuesday evening.
- TTD EO M G Gopal explains guidelines of new system
- Main priority is hassle-free ‘darshan’ to pilgrims
Tirumala: Advance booking of Rs.300 special entry ‘darshan’ tickets will commence from August 30 on trial basis in the Internet booking and e-darshan counters, TTD Executive Officer M G Gopal said here on Tuesday evening.
Explaining the guidelines of the new system to media persons, he said on an experimental basis the TTD would commence the sale of 5,000 tickets of Rs.300 from 9 a m onwards for the seventh day darshan on August 27 for the 2-3 pm slots.
‘Following the instructions of Chief Minister N Chandra Babu Naidu, who visited Tirumala recently and directed the TTD to find ways and means to reduce the waiting hours of the pilgrims, our team of officers, led by Tirumala JEO KS Sreenivasa Raju, chalked out a plan to execute this new system of darshan for the sake of multitude of visiting pilgrims”, he stated
‘Whenever we are coming out with something new, initially we may face some hurdles. To study the pros and cons we have decided to issue 5,000 tickets on a trial basis. Once we overcome all the hurdles we will launch the 14-day and one-day advance booking in a full-fledged manner”, Gopal said.
The EO stated that the main priority of the TTD was to provide hassle-free darshan to pilgrims. ‘The recently introduced three-stepped darshan system proved successful with a majority of pilgrims expressing satisfaction in having a hassle-free darshan. Now our motto is to reduce the waiting hours for the pilgrims in compartments. Every day we can provide darshan to 65,000 pilgrims without any inconvenience. If this new system falls into place then we will be providing a well-planned darshan to nearly 25,000 pilgrims (apart from 18,000 Rs.300 darshan, 7,000 Rs.50 darshan tickets put together)on any given day.
Sreenivasa Raju, Temple Deputy EO C Ramana were present.
5000 tickets up for advance booking today
Five thousand tickets of Rs 300 ‘special entry’ will be made available for advance booking from 9 am on August 20 for the seventh day, i.e August 27 for 2-3 pm time-slots on a trial basis in Internet booking and e-darshan counters. The quota will be released at 9 am each day.
Every day 2,500 tickets of Rs 300 special entry tickets for Internet booking will be made available for the seventh day from the date of booking to pilgrims with effect from August 20.
The 2,500 tickets of special entry for e-darshan counters will be made available for pilgrims to start with through the following e-darshan counters every day as per the quota mentioned against each in the 2 pm & 3 pm time slots:The pilgrim should invariably present himself/themselves at the reporting time indicated in the ticket. The right of entry will automatically get forfeited if they do not report before expiry of the time of admission indicated in the ticket.
For group ticket holders all pilgrims mentioned in the ticket have to report collectively at a time. The pilgrims shall invariably be present in traditional dress code (dothi, pyjama & kurtha for men and sari, half-sari, chudidhar with dupatta for women) while reporting for darshan.
No person in shorts / skin tight cloths will be permitted. Wearing dupatta / upper cloth is a must for women pilgrims.
The pilgrims should come with at least two printouts of the confirmation slip along with original proof of ID of all the persons and to produce the same at VQC -I for verification to get entry for darshan and the other one while collecting ‘prasadam’.
The pilgrims should invariably produce only the original ID proof given while booking the darshan ticket of all the members printed on the ticket at the time of availing the darshan.
Age proof shall be produced for children below 12 years to gain free entry. The pilgrims whose photos are printed on the receipt page only will be entitled to avail ‘darshan’.
