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Book your Tirumala pilgrimage online

TIRUPATI: Planning a visit to the abode of Lord Venkateswara? You don’t have to stand in queues to book travel and descend here only to find similar serpentine queue lines for darshan.

Darshan as well as travel (including return journey) can be booked through a single window called ‘e-darshan’. Welcome to the TTD’s online booking system that allows one to reserve general darshan, special sevas, accommodation and now travel.

Overcoming the initial hiccups, the system has started gaining acceptance among the masses and is increasingly being used by common devotees from across the country to book their trip. According to official sources, 35 per cent of the advanced and current bookings registered with the TTD are through the 48 e-darshan counters located across the country. Besides, 7200 devotees have already ‘reserved’ their darshan of the Lord on the auspicious ‘Vaikunta Ekadasi’ (December 20) that bears testimony to the favourable response that the system is getting.

The centres in the State includes all the district headquarters, besides Chirala, Srikalahasti, Naidupet, Pulivendula, Siddipet, Tallapaka and Bhimavaram towns.

Apart from the four metros, there are such centres in Vellore, Erode, Coimbatore, Salem and Rajapalayam (Tamil Nadu), Pune and Kolhapur (Maharashtra), Bhubaneswar, Bangalore and Kharagpur.

There is great demand to open such centres in Mangalore, Bellary, Guruvayur, Srirangam, Kanchi, Tiruttani, Jamshedpur and Puttaparthi.

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