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The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) connected Tuesday unveiled an extended program to negociate the monolithic influx of devotees expected for the Vaikunta Dwara Darshan astatine the Tirumala temple of Lord Venkateswara from December 30 to January 8. In enactment with its precedence of ensuring creaseless entree for communal pilgrims, it has introduced a bid of measures governing ticketing, queue absorption and peculiar introduction provisions for the 10-day festival period.
For the highest days, December 30, 31 and January 1, coinciding with Vaikunta Ekadasi, Vaikunta Dwadasi and New Year, the darshan volition beryllium regulated exclusively done the Electronic Dip system. Families of up to 4 members tin registry nether the 1+3 quota betwixt November 27 and December 1 done the TTD website, mobile app oregon the Andhra Pradesh government’s WhatsApp bot. The automated gully of the tickets volition beryllium announced connected December 2. WhatsApp applicants tin registry by texting Govinda oregon Hi to the authoritative fig and completing Aadhaar-based verification. Each Aadhaar and mobile fig tin beryllium utilized lone once.
As portion of streamlining the assemblage flow, TTD has cancelled ₹300 SED and Srivani Darshan tickets for the archetypal 3 days, and nary offline Srivani tickets volition beryllium issued during the full period. SSD tokens successful Tirupati volition stay suspended from December 30 to January 8. From January 2 to 8, Sarva Darshan volition beryllium offered straight done Vaikuntham Queue Complex–2 without tokens. Online booking for 1,000 regular Srivani and 15,000 regular SED tickets for these 7 days volition unfastened connected December 5.
All privileged formats of darshan for elder citizens, infants, persons with disabilities, defence unit and NRIs basal cancelled during the 10-day period. Local residents volition beryllium accommodated connected January 6, 7 and 8 nether a abstracted quota, with tokens to beryllium released connected December 10. VIP Break Darshan volition beryllium restricted solely to self-reporting protocol dignitaries, portion each Arjita Sevas stay suspended.
About 125 donor families who person contributed ₹1 crore and supra volition beryllium extended the darshan privilege from December 30 to January 8 daily, and those who person contributed ₹1 lakh to ₹99 lakh shall get 1,000 slots connected December 30 and 31 too 2,000 slots regular from January 1 to 8, bookable online from December 5.
