“FRUITS OF FREEDOM SHOULD BE ACHIEVED THROUGH OUR DEEDS”-TTD EO

“Tirupati, 26 January 2016: Our great leaders have laid a clear path before us by formulating a well designed constitution and made our lives so easy and it is now our turn to pay tributes to them by discharging our duties and responsibilities with dedication”, said TTD EO Dr D Sambasiva Rao.

In his address during the Republic Day celebrations which was held a Parade Grounds behind TTD administrative building in Tirupati on Tuesday he said, “the great message what these leaders gave us is to execute our duties with utmost devotion in our respective fields. Today TTD, being the custodian of Hindu Sanatana Dharma, is committed towards the protection, propagation and promotion of Hindu Dharma, conduction of rituals as per the tenets of Vaikhanasa agama, providing services to multitude of visiting pilgrims including Darshan, accommodation, Annaprasadam, tonsuring etc., protecting environment in Tirumala by developing greenery etc.

TRANSPARENCY IN SERVICES THROUGH TECHNOLOGY:

While complimenting the strong work force of TTD, EO said, in the recent times TTD has extended its IT services with an aim to provide enhanced services to pilgrims with transparency. “As we are now allotting Seva tickets , darshan tickets, rooms, laddus through on-line services, it not only enhanced transparency but reduced the long waiting hours in queues to the pilgrims during Darshan, KKC, Laddu Prasadam etc.

INVOLVING PILGRIMS IN PILGRIM SERVICES:

With an aim to extend the best possible services to pilgrims, we are widely involving the pilgrim public. Today, the pilgrims as Srivari Sevakulu are rendering excellent services to pilgrims in different areas. Especially their services in Laddu Prasadam Distribution counters in Tirumala are praise worthy. We welcome those who have a little computer knowledge to take part in this service, to offer transparent services to pilgrims with more efficiency”, he maintained.

CALENDAR AS SCREEN SAVER:

This year we have printed over 15lakh 12-sheet calendars and 8lakh diaries and all of them were sold in the market. But still there is a huge demand for our calendars. So now the pilgrims can fulfil their wish by down loading the calendar for our website and setting it up as their screen saver image from today onwards”, he added.

Later the EO distributed meritorious certificates and medals to 19 senior officers and 184 staff members who exhibited their skills in their respective areas.

CULTURAL SHOW ENTHRALS SPECTATORS

Meanwhile the cultural programmes performed by the students of various TTD run institutions enthralled the spectators. The magic show by Sri Tiruppal, a security guard, Yogasans by students, March by TTD vigilance and security sleuths impressed every one.

Tirumala Jeo Sri KS Sreenivasa Raju, Tirupati JEO Sri P Bhaskar, CVSO Sri D Nagendra Kumar, CE Sri Chandrasekhar Reddy, Additional FACAO Sri O Balaji, DLO Sri Venkatramana, CEO Sri Narasimha Rao and other senior officers, employees, students were also present.