TIRUPATI: The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) will release slotted sarva darshan (free darshan) tickets online for the benefit of common devotees who wish to have darshan at the Tirumala temple from September 26 onwards.
These tickets, the number of which has been capped at 8,000 a day, will be released for online booking at 9 am on September 25.
TTD chairman Y V Subba Reddy said the decision to move the slotted sarva darshan tickets online was taken in view of the health security of visiting devotees as well as locals.
“From the day the TTD started issuing free darshan tokens under current booking quota, an unprecedented number of devotees was queuing up at the booking counters and the crowding had become a cause of concern, which is why we are now moving the darshan booking to the online mode,” added the chairman.
The offline counters at Srinivasam where free darshan tickets are issued to devotees under the current booking mode will be closed from September 26 as the quota for darshan tickets will be released online.
Y V Subba Reddy appealed to the devotees to carry either a negative Covid-19 test report or a final vaccination report while coming to Tirumala for darshan.
Meanwhile, TTD EO Dr K S Jawahar Reddy who inspected the Sapthagiri Gau Pradakshina shala at Alipiri on Wednesday told reporters that chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy will inaugurate the first of its kind centre for cow worship on the eve of the annual Brahmotsavams.
