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Good response to Slotted Sarva Darshan: TTD EO
The Slotted Sarva Darshan (SSD) counter implemented by Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) on a trial-basis from December 18 to 23 received overwhelming response from pilgrims, said TTD EO Anil Kumar Singhal.
Tirumala: The Slotted Sarva Darshan (SSD) counter implemented by Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) on a trial-basis from December 18 to 23 received overwhelming response from pilgrims, said TTD EO Anil Kumar Singhal.
The EO, along with Tirumala JEO KS Sreenivasa Raju, inspected the counters in Tirumala on Saturday. At ANC counter, he interacted with the pilgrims who thronged to book different slot tokens available in Sarva Darshan. The pilgrims welcomed the move of TTD which facilitated them free darshan of Lord Venkateswara within couple of hours avoiding waiting in queue lines and compartments.
Later speaking to media persons, the EO has said, the management will soon bring reforms in the SSD based on feed back given by pilgrims. "We have now observed that it is taking nearly 32-33 seconds to capture the photo and aadhaar details per pilgrim. But in future we want to reduce the time further by taking direct Aadhaar authentication as per the advice of our technical experts and negotiate the same with UID officers to issue SSD tokens to more number of pilgrims.
In future, we are contemplating to establish the counters in Tirupati also. Before we commence this system in a full-fledged manner in the month of March 2018, we want to assess the correct number of counters required to establish counters at Tirupati and Tirumala, staff needed to run the counters and invite works contract ", he added.
He said that currently officials are examining the various places in Tirupati which have suitable for starting the SSD token counters. SE II Sri Ramachandra Reddy, GM Transport and IT Chief Sesha Reddy and VGO Ravinder Reddy were present.
