TTD to reach new heights in Devotee Satisfaction: Bapiraju
Tirumala, October 12: I want to serve humanity through service to Lord Venkateswara, says the Chairman of TTD, Sri Kanumuri Bapiraju who completed two years in the temple administration last September.
The 59 year old veteran Congress MP from fertile land of Narsapuram in West Godavari who will hold prestigious office of TTD Chairman for one more year is an addict for service to people has led a distinguished public life- five times as an MLA, one term as MLC and two terms as MP. ' want to ensure that the TTD service to poor and needy will have no parallels and the divine blessings of Lord Venkateswara reaches every one of the devotees, he said.
It was during his tenure that TTD rolled out various devotee welfare programs and delivered optimum benefits.
TTD has built temples in several towns of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarkhand, Kathmandu in Nepal, Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu during his tenure.
One of the projects to help devotees TTD introduced are information on Srivari temple activities on SMS through cell phones. TTD Managudi program was launched in 17,200 temples of AP, Karnataka and Tamilnadu to focus on the well keeping of local temples and Hindu Sanatana Dharma cultures.
TTD also participated in the Kumbha Mela at Allahabad during the beginning of the year and a replica of Srivari Temple was erected there for the benefit of crores of visitors to Kumbhamela.
Bapiraju said for the benefit of common devotees, all VIP break darshans were cancelled at evening except Thursday saving over one or two hours. 'TTD is always for the common devotee and no effort will be spared to make his experience at Tirumala both pleasant, comfortable and also divinely enriching, he said.
About the agenda before him for the rest of his tenure, the TTD chairman said he wanted to ensure that none of the common devotee and all Bhakta's of Venkateswara never go hungry or without his darshan ever. TTD has drawn up massive programs for propagating the legends of Lord Venkateswara, promoting Hindu dharma besides providing subsidised education, free health care for poor and needy.
'I am only a servant of the Lord and I intend to remain that way till I achieve the goals set for the TTD in service of mankind', he added.
News Posted: 12 October, 2013
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