The TTD EO Shyamala Rao is on the job. He reviewed the places of work where food is prepared in Tirumala including Matrusri Tarigonda Vengamamba Annaprasadam Complex(MTVAC), Akshaya Kitchen in VQC, PAC 2 for the sake of pilgrims besides Employees’ Canteen and SPRH.
He directed the officials of Annaprasadam and Engineering department to consider the opening of Panchajanyam Kitchen which was kept on hold, by completing the pending works soon.
The EO also verified that on an average per day the Annaprasadam is being served to nearly 1.95lakh pilgrims during weekends and 1.75lakh in the normal days in all these centres in Tirumala while 2.13lakh during weekends and 1.92lakh during normal days in Tirupati.
The PowerPoint Presentation on Annaprasadam also highlighted that the corpus in Annaprasadam Trust is at Rs.1892crore and the average expenditure on any given day is at Rs.38lakh. The EO also reviewed on Vegetable Donors, One Day Donation Scheme and others.
The EO also suggested to the Deputy EO Sri Rajendra, Catering Special Officer GLN Shastry to enhance the quality of butter milk being served to the devotees, and to keep the premises inside the cooking area clean and dry.
