Overview
- TTD’s Trust Board, meeting Wednesday, cleared a multi-pronged package headlined by a seven-storey Maha Rajagopuram for the Amaravati Venkateswara temple at a cost of ₹36.95 crore.
- The board doubled monthly aid to temples for dhupa, deepa and naivedyam to ₹10,000, which helps cover daily worship items like lamps, incense and offerings.
- Pilgrim services will expand with ₹4.55 crore for more toilets along Tirumala’s Sarva Darshan queues and a ₹6 crore pipeline from Gogarbham Dam to the filtration plant to reduce water loss.
- TTD added ₹43.40 crore for new facilities in its schools and colleges, bringing total current-year funding for education infrastructure to ₹161.40 crore.
- The board moved on expansion steps beyond Andhra Pradesh by approving ₹44.20 crore in textile buys from APCO and Co‑optex, accepting 19.43 acres in Tamil Nadu, and staffing the new Navi Mumbai temple ahead of its Maha Samprokshanam consecration.