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Endowments Minister Anam Ramanarayana Reddy has attributed a crisp emergence successful temple gross and pilgrim footfall successful Andhra Pradesh implicit the past 2 years to the keen involvement of Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu successful temple tourism.
Temples maintained by the State Endowments section recorded an betterment successful pilgrim footfall implicit the past 2 years, which translated into maturation successful Hundi collections. The play coincides with the NDA government’s two-year tenure successful the State.
Apart from the temples governed by the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), an autonomous body, different large shrines are categorised arsenic large and minor, and administered by officials of the Joint Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner cadres.
Repairs and renovation successful scores of temples, on with improved amenities specified arsenic Prasadam distribution, waiting halls, structure and nationalist toilets, contributed to a crisp emergence successful footfall astatine respective large temples.
Srisailam was the biggest beneficiary. The temple’s gross roseate from ₹178.8 crore successful 2023-24 to ₹199.9 crore successful 2024-25, and ₹217.2 crore successful 2025-26.
Footfall astatine the Srisailam temple grew from 82.18 lakh successful 2023-24 to 101.51 lakh successful 2024-25, and 119.71 lakh successful 2025-26.
After Srisailam, the temples that recorded maturation successful some gross and footfall were the Sri Kanakadurga temple successful Vijayawada, the Srikalahastheeswara Swami temple successful Srikalahasti, the Simhachalam Sri Varaha Lakshmi Narasimha Swami temple successful Visakhapatnam, the Annavaram Sri Satyanarayana Swami temple successful Kakinada and the Dwaraka Tirumala temple successful West Godavari.
Among the temples governed by Deputy Commissioner cadre officials, the gross of the Lova temple successful Kakinada territory much than doubled, from ₹23.09 crore successful 2023-24 to ₹56.48 crore successful 2025-26.
The Mahanandi, Sri Kanaka Mahalakshmi, Penchalakona, Mopidevi and Kadiri Narasimha Swami temples besides recorded a crisp emergence successful revenue.
“The NDA authorities is committed to restoring the mislaid glory successful each the temples. Devotees expect decent infrastructure and basal amenities astatine immoderate temple, which we person provided implicit the past 2 years. Hence the disposable result,” Mr. Reddy told The Hindu
The curate attributed the emergence successful turnout to the reformative measures initiated by the government, and peculiarly to the keen involvement shown by Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu successful boosting temple tourism successful the State.
He said helium hoped that the inflow of devotees from the neighbouring States would proceed to rise.
