Additional Space For Parking For Garuda Seva day: Special Officer

Tirupati, Sept.12 (Maxi News): To ensure hassle-free parking facility for vehicles in Tirumala, TTD is getting ready with additional parking arrangements for the upcoming religious event Srivari annual brahmotsavams on the Outer Ring Road area, said Tirumala Special Officer AV Dharma Reddy.

With a few days to go for annual brahmotsavams in Tirumala, Tirumala Special Officer held a high-level meeting on security arrangements for the annual brahmotsavams with a special focus on the day of Garuda Seva with CVSO Gopinath Jatti and Tirupati Urban SP Anburajan at Gokulam Conference Hall on Thursday. During the review meeting, the SO urged the TTD Vigilance sleuths and Police personnel to make elaborate arrangements in providing security cover to pilgrims and paying extra attention in all the entry and exit points at galleries especially on Garuda Seva Day.

With respect to parking facilities, the SO instructed the concerned to identify the parking places with specific numbering to facilitate pilgrims to reach their vehicles without any inconvenience after Garuda Seva. He also instructed to guide the pilgrims on parking places by forming a Guiding group who have enough knowledge about these parking areas and their route maps. He also directed to see the possibility of plying shuttle vehicles to transport aged and differently able pilgrims to reach these parking areas safely. “Continuous announcements through Public Address System should be given to inform the pilgrims”, he added.

CVSO said this year special focus is laid on luggage counters keeping in view the previous year’s experience. “Since this year, the Garuda Seva crowd is coupled with Third Peratasi Saturday on the immediate day, we are anticipating more crowd than last year and making arrangements to meet the pilgrim demand”, he maintained. Tirupati Urban SP said, three circuitous routes have been identified as Tirupati, Ghat Road and Tirumala to avoid any inconvenience to pilgrim public on Garuda Seva Day.

Later, the SO inspected Sri Bedi Anjaneya Swamy temple and directed the officials to make necessary barricading and regulate pilgrim crowd into galleries during brahmotsavams. (Maxim News)