Hyderabad devotee donates Rs 1 crore to Tirupati temple

SAMAYAM TELUGU: A devotee of Lord Venkateswara has donated Rs 1 crore to Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) SV Vidhyadana Trust. Hyderabad-based business man B Karunakar Reddy donated Rs 1,00,00,116 to the famous hill shrine at Tirumala here on Wednesday. Reddy, along with his family members, offered prayers to Lord Venkateswara and handed over the cheque towards the donation to TTD Joint Executive Officer KS Sreenivasa Raju at Ranganayakula Mandapam in Tirumala.

Last week RS Brothers showroom Charman Venkateswarlu has made a donation of Rs 1.60 crore to Lord Venkateswara. He requested to use that money for Sri Balaji Arogyavaraprasadini scheme. He handed over the DD to JEO KS Sreenivasa Raju at his office in Tirumala.

From Wednesday, Tirumala revamped its queue system to enable hassle-free darshan for devotees. The earlier system of ‘stop-hold-allow’ had led to a crunchy situation in the inner portals of the ‘Sampangi Prakaram’ and also in the queues. The number of lines from ‘Mahadwaram’ (main entrance) is now two and not four as earlier. While the first line goes round the Ranganayakula mandapam, the other runs alongside the Dwajastambham. Both the lines merge at ‘Vendi Vakili’.