TTD for latest tech in electrical wiring

Tirupati: TTD Executive Officer (EO) Anil Kumar Singhal has directed officials concerned to utilise high quality and latest technology for laying electrical wiring in the hill shrine to provide a harmless and safe environment on the hills where lakhs of devotees’ daily throng for darshan.

Addressing the senior TTD officials during a review meeting in the TTD Administrative Building here on Monday, the EO directed the Superintendent Engineer Venkateswarlu that experts in electrical wiring and installation should be invited and asked to inspect all the key areas like Srivari Temple, rest houses, pilgrim amenity complexes, major road junctions etc. and submit a report. 

He said all precautionary steps should be taken to protect the waiting sheds in Narayanagiri Gardens and other areas on Tirumala in view of rainy season and heavy winds hitting the hill shrine in the coming months. Steps should also be taken to arrest lighting and its damages, he instructed the Engineering department officials. 

The EO said all the big holes done at the steps of the Swami Pushkarini should be covered immediately to avoid inconvenience to devotees and the steps be cleaned without compromise on cleanliness all over Tirumala. He advised that the metal arches set up at four mada streets on which electrical and other systems were installed should be checked frequently for strength and stability. 

Anil Kumar directed the IT officials to speed up the arrangements for installing IRIS technology in the time slot sarva darshan counters. The installation of DFMDS equipment for rolling out network of scanners, CCTV cameras, head count machines should be completed in the month of June itself, he directed the in-charge CVSO Sivakumar Reddy. By August, there should be 100 per cent and foolproof LED lighting in operation at Tirumala, he told the officials concerned. 

He also asked the Tirupati JEO Pola Bhaskar to complete the development works underway at Friday Gardens and Thollappa Gardens connected to the Sri Padmavati Ammavari Temple, Trichanur. The parking issue at the Sri Govindaraja Swamy Temple in Tirupati also should be resolve in consultation and coordination with concerned officials at the earliest, he told the JEO Tirupati. Tirumala JEO KS Srinivasa Raju, Chief Engineer Chandrasekhar Reddy, FACAO Balaji and other officials participated in the review meeting.