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Articles: Development | Leveraging TTD
- Mr. VNS Raju Inapakutiki
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The TTD’s Promises to the Devotee:
· Local transportation by TTD only on the hills
· TTD stalls are only allowed to sell
· TTD run Eating-places
· All devotees are given equal chance to have darshan including the VIPs like president of India etc.
· No private cottages
· Free general medical aid for all devotees
· TTD guides to provide free service
· Free Prasadam
· Free single meal
· Free entrance to all public places and exhibitions
· Announcing quarterly reports of the TTD activities – Income and Expenditure statements.
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Ananth paid for cottage, Food, rail and road transport a lumpsum for two. The Darshan time given was 4.00 pm on 31st May and his return journey was booked on 1st June Evening.
Ananth and his wife lakshmi got ready for the Tirumala visit.
They were booked in the evening train on 30th and reached Tirumala by 31st morning.
As they came out from the railway station TTD bus was ready to take them up hills. They opted to climb by bus. They were accommodated in the bus based on the set of cottages.
The bus took them to the cottages allotted to the devotees. Since there was ample time for the darshan they can avail other services like visit to papanasanam, kapila theertham, Aakasa Ganga and other places. They chose the first two since they can safely report for Darshan at 2.00 pm. They came out from the cottage at 9.30 am and had their breakfast in the TTD’s “Amritam” outlet.
The buses were ready just outside the tiffin outlet. The buses for local transport also play excellent and soothing music with good announcing systems. The sthala purana is also played in the bus on both the ways.
They returned to the same place and did the shopping by visiting the TTD’s stalls. On their return to the cottage they had their free lunch in the Nityannadanam hall. By 1.30 pm the buses started from the cottages to take the devotees to the temple for darshan. As they reported at 2.00 pm for the Darshan along with their DPI Cards they were greeted by the TTD staff and welcomed. Each waiting hall is equipped with a big screen featuring Lord Balaji’s story and the stories of his devotees. The two-hour waiting time is spent like a few minutes. They had the Darshan - an experience of few moments that long last in the minds and compel them come again and see the Lord. They were guided by the direction boards to Hundi for making personal offerings. As they come out of the temple they were given a laddoo each. These laddoos are first offered to the lord in the Prasadam making unit itself as soon as a batch of laddoos is ready by the Temple Priests.
The laddoos being made by the Prasadam making unit are also sold at a rate fixed on no-profit-no-loss-basis.
Ananth and his wife purchased 6 laddoos from a laddoo vending machine. Several such machines have been kept at a particular place for the devotees to buy laddoos.
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