Nellore: With an aim to provide transparent services to millions of devotees of Lord Venkateswara, the TTD IT wing in association with a TCS team is developing a pilgrim-friendly Mobile App to facilitate easy bookings of rooms, tickets for darshan and issue of laddu Prasadam, and for making e-donations too.
We will soon develop and launch a ‘Mobile App’, TTD EO Dr D. Sambasiva Rao revealed this during a weekly review meeting held at Annamaiah Bhavan in Tirumala on Tuesday. The EO said 30 per cent of the pilgrims were already using internet facility on their mobiles for booking Rs 300 tickets and their aim is to ensure large number of pilgrims use the mobile app that is being introduced. He added that TTD has enhanced the booking of Rs 300 tickets from six to ten for the sake of pilgrims and also digitalising all the services soon.
He said they are raising sandalwood trees in 100 acres and also constructing check dams in the ghat roads to store the rainwater in Tirumala and added that they can address the water needs of Tirumala for the next 273 days with available water in various dams in Tirumala and Tirupati.
TTD EO Dr D. Sambasiva Rao has instructed the heads of various departments to gear up for another big religious event, the annual Rathasapthami in the next fortnight's time. He told them to come out with an action plan to execute the services to the pilgrims on the big day with more efficiency in significant areas.
He instructed the Annaprasadam and Health officers to keep ready 1.5 lakh buttermilk and six Lakh water packets ready on that day.
The EO also directed the Hindu Dharma Prachara Parishat chief N Muktheswara Rao to bring out some innovative artistes’ groups to perform before Vahana sevas on Rathasapthami Day apart from recitation of Aditya Hrudayam by students of Balamandiram and Surya Namaskarams in all the district headquarters. He instructed the SVBC CEO Narasimha Rao to display interesting promos on TTD welfare activities, trusts and schemes during the gap of each Vahana Seva.
"Design programmes in such a way that our activities should reach a wider range of devotees. The schemes launched by TTD can be heard to the pilgrims through the voices of eminent spiritual scholars like Brahmasri Chaganti Koteswara Rao, Velgudi Krishnan in Telugu and Tamil respectively. Also bring out the brochures on TTD trusts in a more attractive manner", he added.
