TTD EO launches `300 advance booking darshan

TTD EO launches `300 advance booking darshan
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TTD EO launches `300 advance booking darshan, TTD EO MG Gopal on Wednesday launched the Rs 300 advance booking darshan system at Tirumala along with JEO KS Sreenivasa Raju.

Tirumala: TTD EO MG Gopal on Wednesday launched the Rs 300 advance booking darshan system at Tirumala along with JEO KS Sreenivasa Raju.

Tirumala Tirupathi Devastanam::

Later addressing media persons he said with an aim to provide hassle-free and speedy darshan to pilgrims TTD has commenced issuing of the advance booking of Rs 300 special entry darshan tickets (one week before) on August 20 on trial basis in Internet Booking and e-Darshan counters and the darshan for the pilgrims who booked in advance is formally launched on Wednesday.

He said the top most priority of the temple administration was to provide convenient darshan to pilgrims. "Over the instructions of Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu we have introduced this time-bound speedy darshan system on trial basis and are hopeful of positive results", he added.


Later the EO along with the JEO also had darshan along with the pilgrims in this new darshan system. Meanwhile out of the 2,500 tickets allotted in the on-line quota, all the tickets were booked and only 2,173 pilgrims availed the darshan facility while out of 2,500 tickets allotted in e-Darshan counters 699 pilgrims booked tickets and 609 pilgrims availed the darshan. On the whole, of the total 5,000 tickets in these two modes, 3,199 pilgrims booked the tickets and only 2782 availed of the darshan facility on Wednesday in two different time slots at 2pm and 3pm.

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