22% FIRST TIMERS TRYING LUCKY DIP-TTD EO

Tirumala, 1 December 2017: The electronic dip system of allotting limited number of arjitha seva tickets to pilgrims who have enrolled online is completely transparent and one lakh pilgrims are trying every time for ten thousand odd tickets, said TTD EO Sri Anil Kumar Singhal.

Addressing media persons after Dial your EO programme, the EO said, TTD introduced online dip system six months ago. “There are some pilgrims who tried for seva tickets in all the six months. For 10,019 premiere arjitha seva tickets released under lucky dip in the month of November 1,16,071 pilgrims registered online. Among them those who tried first time were 39,322 (21.95%), who tried twice
were about 24,954, who attempted thrice includes 16,509, four times 13,815, five times-11,868 and those who tried in all the six months were 9,603 pilgrims.

The EO also gave the comparative figures of pilgrims who had darshan, laddu, annaprasadam and hundi collections in November last with present.

He said when 20,72,591 pilgrims had darshan in last November, this year 20,55,953 had darshan while the sale of laddus during last November were 79,34,652 and this year it recorded 83,15, 373. Annaprasadam also made commendable mark with 41,28,363 consuming the free food as against 33,91,092 of last November. The Hundi collections stood at Rs.82crores this November as against Rs.91crores last year.