tirumala tirupati Devasthanam is getting ready for Post-Corona Life with lines being drawn to ensure social distancing between devotees while they are waiting for darshan of Lord Venkateswara Swamy. Temples are not allowed to function in the current phase of Lockdown which will end on May 31st. Once allowed, the people allowed for Darshan will also be decreased significantly.
"Usually 80000 to one lakh devotees get darshan of the Lord daily. In the initial days after darshan is allowed, only 5000 to 10000 devotees will be allowed. That number will be gradually increased to 25000. Before all this, ttd is planning to conduct a trial run with our one thousand ttd employees who work uphill at tirumala," a source in the ttd told us.
Meanwhile, there are reports of Cash Crunch for the Richest temple in the World. "The Daily Hundi Collections of ttd are 3.5 Crore. Along with rent, sale of prasadam, and hair, the temple generate monthly revenue of Rs 200 crore. The monthly expenditure on salaries, maintenance of institutions and temples not just in tirumala but also in tirupati and three hospitals comes to about Rs 125 crore. The Salaries for march and april have been paid but funds are to be mobilized for june Salaries. The plan is not to touch the corpus of Rs 13000 crore in the banks and nine tonnes of gold reserves," they say.
