TTD is becoming Pakka commercial. The board members under Subbareddy are hiking the rates of every service as they like.
The accommodation has been a big issue here at the TTD and now they have increased the room rents by manifolds. They have not released the room quota booking online so far.
The TTD is selling the darshan tickets online but not giving the rooms online like in earlier times. A big shock to the Tirumala devotees as the TTD officials hiked the prices of room rentals in Tirumala and it became a burden on the common man. The prices of Nandakam, Panchajanyam, Kaustubham and Vakulamata are increased from Rs 500 and Rs 600 to Rs 1000. The officials also hiked the prices of 1,2,3 rooms in Narayanagiri Rest House from Rs 150 to Rs 1700 with GST.
The rental prices of Rest House 4 hiked to Rs 1700 from Rs 750. The price of a corner suit increased to Rs 2200 inclusive of GST and special cottages room rents increased from Rs 750 to Rs 2800.
The devotees also need to deposit the money along with room rent. Now the board members have decided that even the rooms which were allotted at Rs 50 and Rs 100 rent are also getting repaired and then they will be given at a higher rate of rent .
The TTD is collecting double the rent per 24 hours for overstaying for an hour in the cottages. Apart from one day rent they are also collecting the fine.
Now that the rents have been hiked abnormally the one-hour over stay will cost the pilgrim in thousands. This is not right on the part of the TTD.
The board members must note that we are not running the TTD for commercial purposes. Daily the collections are in crores for the Lord.
There is no need of hiking the room rents at this juncture. Record collections are happening in the Hundis. It would be wise for the board members to think twice.
There is a talk that a new board will be formed under the leadership of Karunakar Reddy who was Chairman during the YS Rajasekhar Reddy time.
