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Tirumala pilgrims to get ORS packets
In a laudable gesture, Tirumala-Tirupati Devasthanams has resolved to provide ORS packets to pilgrims this summer, as a precautionary measure to protect them from dehydration.Since the summer vacation has begun, the rush at the temple town is growing in numbers.
Tirumala: In a laudable gesture, Tirumala-Tirupati Devasthanams has resolved to provide ORS packets to pilgrims this summer, as a precautionary measure to protect them from dehydration.Since the summer vacation has begun, the rush at the temple town is growing in numbers.
Pilgrims from across the country are finding it difficult to bear the summer heat at Tirumala.During a review meeting of TTD officials held at Annamayya Bhavan, Executive Officer D Sambasiva Rao instructed the HoDs to give their best of services in the next three months as pilgrims rush was expected to grow phenomenally.
The turnout of pilgrims on Saturday was about 57,133. The EO directed the medical and health wing to keep enough ORS packets ready to be given to all pilgrims waiting for Lord’s darshan. The EO directed the Annaprasadam wing officials to see that the Mathhrusi Tarigonda Vengamamba Annaprasadam Complex should operate from 9 am to 11 pm continuously with just one-hour break to clean the premises.
He instructed the health wing to keep the ghat roads clean by clearing plastic bottles and other waste thrown by the pilgrims from buses on to the ghat roads. Tirumala JEO K S Sreenivasa Raju complimented the Annaprasadam officials for their efforts to garner Rs 100 cr donations for the Annaprasadam Trust in the financial year 2015-16, which is a new record.
