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Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal connected Friday (June 5, 2026) commended the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) for harnessing artificial quality (AI) and precocious technologies to heighten pilgrim services, describing the inaugural arsenic a exemplary of businesslike and transparent nationalist work delivery.
After offering prayers astatine the elevation shrine of Lord Venkateswara, Mr. Goyal besides visited the TTD’s Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) astatine the Vaikuntham Queue Complex, and expressed restitution implicit its functioning and technology-enabled absorption of pilgrim amenities.
Addressing the media, the Union Minister said the AI-powered strategy enables real-time monitoring of accommodation occupancy, pilgrim movement, queue-line presumption and laddu prasadam distribution, importantly improving operational ratio and transparency. The platform, helium said, provides instant entree to captious data, including country availability, compartment-wise waiting pilgrims, hourly influx of devotees and prasadam organisation metrics.
Mr. Goyal praised Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and IT Minister Nara Lokesh for championing technology-led governance and accelerating the State’s improvement agenda. He besides acknowledged the publication of overseas Indian devotees who supported the project, and congratulated TTD officials for implementing the AI-based system.
Earlier, marking World Environment Day, the Minister took portion successful the “Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam” run and planted a sapling successful his mother’s name. Calling the acquisition profoundly fulfilling, helium said the nationwide inaugural launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi would play a pivotal relation successful fostering biology consciousness and promoting sustainable living.
Urging children crossed the state to works and nurture a histrion successful their mother’s name, Mr. Goyal said the run would lend meaningfully to expanding greenish screen and strengthening biology conservation efforts.
The Union Minister besides said it had go a idiosyncratic contented for him to sojourn Tirumala successful the archetypal week of June each year, coinciding with his birthday, to question the blessings of Lord Venkateswara. He said helium prayed for the spot to proceed serving the federation and advancing nationalist welfare.
TTD Executive Officer Muddada Ravi Chandra, Additional Executive Officer Ch. Venkaiah Chowdary and Chief Vigilance and Security Officer Murali Krishna were among those present.
