TTD CONDEMNS FALSE REPORTS AGAINST IT BY A SECTION OF THE MEDIA

365telugu.com ovline news,Tirumala,july 3rd,2021: TTD has seriously condemned the reports by a section of media which tried to create confusion among devotees.In a press statement released on Friday evening, terming the media reports as void from facts, TTD advocated that it has not stopped any free service in Tirumala.Putting forth the factual reports, TTD stated that before March 2020, there were all together 176 counters in Tirumala issuing laddus, darshan tokens, SSD counters, SED counters, Alipiri toll gate counter at Tirupati.

Out of which 86 were operated by Trilok, 40 by various banks, 18 laddu sevaks, and 29 by FM Agencies.While Trilok withdrew it’s services even before March 2020, other banks also gave up as it involved cash transactions. Similar with the case of Laddu Sevaks.At present only two banks are running 16 counters and they are also pressurizing TTD on their withdrawal from services. At this juncture, to give more transparent services to devotees, TTD has called for tenders which took place in a transparent manner.

KVM Info from Bengaluru which quoted the lowest bid in tender with Rs. 11,402 per shift per counter as against the previous value of Rs. 12,345 (both excluding GST).TTD has reduced the counters from 176 to 164 as per it’s a requirement and even introduced deployment of personnel on a rotation basis changing staff once in every two months to avoid giving scope to any sort of misappropriation.