The Hindu : Security-conscious TTD to go for hi-tech gadgets

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Sunday, Feb 01, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Security-conscious TTD to go for hi-tech gadgets

By Our Staff Reporter

CUDDAPAH, JAN. 31. Sophisticated gadgets are being procured from Singapore to tighten security at Tirumala in the wake of the recent naxal attack on the Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, at Alipiri, the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) Chairman, D. K. Adikesavulu Naidu, has said.

Addressing a press conference at Railway Kodur on Saturday, he said security measures would also be taken to avert robberies and waylaying of pilgrims trekking to Tirumala on foot. Parks were being developed from Alipiri to the Seven Hills with a view to depicting the age-old history of the Tirumala temple. They would be open to public within a fortnight, he added.

The TTD proposed to provide free medicare and food to the pilgrims at Tirumala and would also bear the cost of developing the Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences (SVIMS), maternity and leprosy hospitals on the lines of those run at Puttaparthi, he said.

Mr. Naidu said mike sets were supplied to temples in several villages in Obulavaripalle mandal on the request of the Rajampet MP, G. Ramaiah. He assured to set up a library at Tallapaka with Annamacharya's works. He assured to discuss the proposal for laying a road from Kukkaladoddi to Tirumala for the benefit of pilgrims, at the TTD Board meeting.

Mr. G. Ramaiah, the Kodur sarpanch, Muralidhar Goud, the Obulavaripalle TDP mandal unit president, Nagasiva Sankara Reddy, and the president of Arya Vysya Sangham's Kodur unit, K. Narasimhulu were present.

Later, Mr. Naidu inaugurated works for developing parks along the Noonevaripalle road and in Annamayya Engineering College at Rajampet. He said Tallapaka, the birthplace of the saint-lyricist, Annamacharya, would be developed as a tourist centre with TTD funds.

The Collector, Jayesh Ranjan, the former Rajampet MLA, P. Brahmaiah, the District Grandhalaya Samstha chairman, K. Ramaraju, the mandal president, P. Subba Naidu, the ZPTC member, Saraswathamma, and the mandal TDP president, M.V. Ramana were present.

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