Give special attention to pilgrim convenience, safety for Ratha Saptami: TTD EO

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TTD EO Anil kumar Singhal reviewing the arrangements being made for the upcoming Ratha Saptami festival successful  Tirupati connected  Wednesday.

TTD EO Anil kumar Singhal reviewing the arrangements being made for the upcoming Ratha Saptami festival successful Tirupati connected Wednesday. | Photo Credit: BY ARRANGEMENT

Riding connected the palmy behaviour of the yearly ‘Brahmotsavams’ and ‘Vaikunta Ekadasi’ festivities, the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) has intensified preparations to organise ‘Ratha Saptami’ with grandeur connected January 25. TTD Executive Officer (EO) Anil Kumar Singhal directed the officials to guarantee seamless coordination and springiness peculiar attraction to pilgrim convenience, information and spiritual experience.

Addressing a reappraisal gathering astatine Annamayya Bhavan connected Wednesday, on with Additional EO Ch. Venkaiah Chowdary, Mr. Singhal said the tone which the territory administration, constabulary and TTD unit exhibited successful the earlier festivities should beryllium reflective successful the ensuing Ratha Saptami. 

He instructed officials to guarantee uninterrupted organisation of annaprasadam crossed the 4 mada streets, queue complexes and surrounding areas. Robust information arrangements, including mock drills, should beryllium organised done adjacent coordination betwixt TTD vigilance and territory constabulary and stressed that postulation regulation, parking absorption and assemblage travel should beryllium fixed priority. 

He besides directed the temple officials to get fittingness certificates of each the ‘vahanams’ and to thoroughly reappraisal the arrangements successful the mada streets, galleries, barricades, sanitation and drinking h2o facilities with peculiar absorption connected the ‘Pushkarini’ (temple tank) vis-a-vis a wide introduction and exit points during the ‘Chakrasnanam’. 

Healthcare preparedness was besides emphasised, with instructions to support aesculapian staff, paramedics and ambulances connected standby. 

Cultural programmes highlighting the value of each vahanam volition beryllium organised on with required explanations by trained commentators and students of TTD Bal Mandir volition recite Aditya Hrudayam up of the procession of the ‘Suryaprabha Vahanam’.

TTD announced cancellation of each ‘arjitha sevas’, peculiar darshans, VIP interruption darshans (except protocol dignitaries connected the festival day) and issuance of Slotted Sarva Darshan (SSD) tokens successful Tirupati from January 24 to 26.

Published - January 22, 2026 06:29 p.m. IST

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