‘Mana Gudi’ prog. in 20,000 temples today

Tirupati: The third phase of ‘Mana Gudi’ programme will be launched on Wednesday, the auspicious day of Shravana Pournami, which happens to be Rakhi Pournami. The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) made elaborate arrangements for this prestigious event. TTD Public Relations Officer T Ravi Kumar said that in coordination with endowments department, the TTD has successfully conducted ‘Mana Gudi’ programme in two phases on August 2 and November 28 last year, in 13,242 and 17,536 temples respectively.

He reviewed the arrangements for the ‘Mana Gudi’ event with field officials on Tuesday. “We are organising this mass programme on Wednesday and see that this is conducted in more number of temples across the State with public participation. Over 20,000 temples are participating in this programme,” he said.He said that preliminary meetings with the top officials of the endowment department and Collectors were held by the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTDauthorities in a phased manner to make this mass programme a big success.