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Guesthouse at Tirumala planned

Special Correspondent

It will come up on 7.5 acres of land
The land was donated by the then Maharaja of Mysore

BANGALORE: The State Government has decided to construct a 1,000-room guesthouse on 7.5 acres of land adjoining the Lord Venkateswara Temple at Tirumala to provide accommodation to pilgrims from Karnataka.

Minister for Muzrai and Housing S.N. Krishnaiah Setty told presspersons on Wednesday that the land dispute between the State Government and the Andhra Pradesh Government had been resolved. An agreement would be signed soon between the States for construction of the guesthouse. A large number of the temple devotees had come forward to donate funds for the construction of the guesthouse which would be built in two years, the Minister said.

The dispute has come to the fore over the past decade after the Karnataka Government stated that the land belonged to it and the Andhra Pradesh Government claimed that the land was taken over by that Government in 1958.

The 7.5-acre land was donated by the then Maharaja of Mysore and after the formation of the State, the given land had become government property. Over the last few years, the State Government has given a narrow piece of this land to the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams to widen the road adjoining the Lord Venkateshwara Temple.

Kukke Subramanya

The Government has prepared a master plan for renovation of the Kukke Subramanya area in the Western Ghats. A sum of Rs. 80 crore of the temple funds would be utilised for renovation work of the temple and other facilities.

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