Better crowd control ensures lesser waiting time

Tirumala: Tirumala, the abode of Lord Venkateswara is teeming with unending flow of pilgrims since Friday evening. On Saturday 93000 pilgrims had darshan while on Sunday till 6 p.m. 65000 had the glimpse the God and another 20000 were waiting in the queue.

The two pillar system initiated by the temple management, to avoid devotees standing for long in the passage of the queue complex, is also yielding good results

TTD authorities made arrangements to cope with the rush and ensure the smooth flow of queue lines to provide darshan to more number of devotees without much delay. TTD EO Dr D Sambasiva Rao on Sunday inspected the movement of lines. He personally supervised the movement of queue line at several points,lasting for a couple of hours and to seen the lines moved off smoothly without any inconvenience to pilgrims.

With the innovative steps initiated by TTD in view of heavy summer rush which commenced this week end on wards, including the restriction of VIP break darshan only to protocol VIPs on Friday, Saturday and Sunday till June end has given scope to provide darshan to more number of common pilgrims. The two pillar system initiated by the temple management, to avoid devotees standing for long on the passage of the queue complex, also yielding good results.

In spite of 93000 odd pilgrims having darshan on Saturday, the outside lines in Narayanagiri Gardens lasted only for couple of hours in the late hours on April 22. Selvam, a regular pilgrim from Salem of Tamilnadu expressed immense pleasure over the arrangements by TTD. "Every year I used to come by first week end after the commencement of summer vacation. This year the arrangements by the management are extraordinary. `

` It took only two hours for darshan after we were let out from the compartment in the queue complex against several hours last year’’ he said lauding TTD for distribution of Annaprasadam at Vaikuntham Queue Complex also this year’’ he added.