Hyderabad: The scraping of List 1, List 2, List 3 categories in VIP Break Darshan tickets has resulted in the provision of darshan to common pilgrims by an hour.
Speaking to media persons at Annamaiah Bhavan, the Special Officer of Tirumala, AV Dharma Reddy said, the TTD Trust Board Chairman YV Subba Reddy had announced that the common pilgrims will be given priority in darshan and accordingly changes have been brought in reducing VIP break darshan by cancelling categories from July 18 on wards.
Even the protocol VIPs are now given Theertham and Satari outside the sanctum which has saved lot of time and today we could able to complete VIP break darshan in short time. With this scraping of categories in VIP break, now almost an hour is saved and in this precious hour we could be able to provide darshan to nearly 4500-5000 pilgrims in addition”, he observed. (NSS)
