TTD AND TCS TOGETHER WILL BUILD UP A “DIGITAL TIRUMALA”-EO

Tirupati, 20 February 2016: TTD EO Dr D Sambasiva Rao expressed his immense pleasure to collaborate with the renowned IT company Tata Consultancy Services to build up a “Digital Tirumala” soon in order to provide enhanced services to multitude of visiting pilgrims to hill town.

A review meeting on TTD IT Transformation and TCS Governance was held in the SPRH by TTD EO to which the CEO of TCS Sri Chandra Sekhar also participated and reviewed on various developmental IT related projects which have already initiated and going to be brought soon in detail.

The EO complimented the TCS for coming forward to offer its assistance as Corporate Social Responsibility to TTD in bringing out the technological revolution in the institution with an aim to provide better services for the convenience of the pilgrims.

The EO said, as the pilgrims to Tirumala temple are incredibly increasing year after year, TTD is envisaging to use the technology to the best possible extend specially in the areas of darshan, accommodation, laddu prasadam distribution etc.”In the last one year, with the help of TCS, we have made significant improvement in darshan and accommodation by deploying the best-in class systems. The on-line booking of Rs.300, arjitha seva tickets, accommodation, e-Hundi, Dmat, e-books are just few to mention. But still there is a long way to go and need to integrate the system by developing a next gen application,” he strongly felt.

Later, the TCS Chief, Sri N Chandrasekharan said that it is indeed a great privilege to work with TTD in developing an IT application to provide wide range of services to pilgrims which will definitely enhance their experience and satisfactory levels. “There is need to develop an application to integrate Donor Management System. Apart from this we should focus on integrating everything. Our team is also working on Srivari Seva on-line application. This we will achieve by sketching out a specific time frame”, he added.

TCS Vice President Sri Rajanna, CIO Sudhakar Bhaskaruni, IT Wing Head of TTD Sri Sesha Reddy, Additional FACAO Sri Balaji, PRO Dr T Ravi and other officers, representatives of TCS were also present.