Dr. D. Sambasiva Rao takes charge as the Executive Officer of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD). The management is also burdened with the long-time ‘squatters’ who refuse to move out from their positions.
It doesn’t look all rosy for Dondapati Sambasiva Rao who on Wednesday
assumed charge as the new Executive Officer of Tirumala Tirupati
Devasthanams (TTD) which rather remains pestered with several pilgrim
related problems.
Even though successive administrative heads have contributed their bit
to address the difficulties of the devotees, the travails continue to
persist allegedly due to lack of proper conceptualisation in hammering
out a permanent solution. Ordinary devotees are rather subjected to
gruelling waiting hours in the darshan lines as well as in the
compartments.
The access entry card system which enables a devotee to go out and
report back at Vaikuntam queue complex at appropriate time (thus
avoiding gruelling waiting hours) still lacks proper publicity. The
anomalies in online issuing of Rs.300 darshan tickets have rather proved
a bane for pilgrims. Devotees on unplanned trip to the temple town
after incurring huge expenses en route are deprived of darshan even on
normal days, in addition to the speculations of loss of revenue by the
TTD.
Middlemen, who run a parallel establishment atop Tirumala hills, both in
darshan and accommodation in alleged connivance with TTD staff needs to
be tamed. Further, private care-takers at various guest houses go
unchallenged, providing a platform for middlemen, besides threatening
the security of the religious institution that is already on the radar
of militants.
The management is also burdened with the long-time ‘squatters’ who
refuse to move out from their positions. The previous administrations
had a little success in relocating them as they bounced back to their
earlier positions in no time.
Oathtaking
Dr. D. Sambasiva Rao on Wednesday took charge as the Executive Officer
of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD). At a brief function
organised inside the sanctum sanctorum of the hill shrine, he was
administered the oath by the TTD’s JEO K.S. Srinivasa raju. Speaking to
media later, Dr. Rao urged the employees to rededicate themselves in the
service of the visiting devotees. No stone should be left unturned to
make Tirumala into a smart religious city, he said.
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