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Heavy summer rush in Tirumala; 90,000 devotees had darshan Saturday

Tirumala, May 25 (UNI) Tirumala is overflowing with a heavy rush of pilgrims for the last one week.

TTD has made elaborate Annaprasadam and drinking water arrangements to the devotees, waiting in Vaikuntham Compartments, NG Sheds, Outside Lines.
Srivari Seva Volunteers are being deployed who have been rendering impeccable services to the devotees.
In the last 24 days in the month of May, Annaprasadam has been provided to over 51 lakh devotees in all its Annaprasadam Centres, compartments and Outside Lines.
While another 20 lakh servings each of snacks and beverages were served out in Outside queue lines and NG Sheds.
Especially since May 17 onwards every day almost over 90,000 servings of snacks and
beverages, 2.5 lakh servings of Annaprasadam have been served in NG sheds and Outside Lines.
On May 24, a total of 93,950 devotees had Annaprasadam in MTVAC, 2.72 lakh servings were made in Outside Lines and Vaikuntham, 1.17 lakh beverages were also distributed.
On the other hand, the Health Wing is also ensuring continuous supply of water to the devotees in queue lines along with proper cleaning of premises from time to time.
All the 2,150-odd sanitary workers, Sanitary Supervisors, Health Mistrys and Inspectors are discharging their duties.
Nearly 3,000 Srivari Sevaks have been offering impeccable services to the devotees round the clock at Annaprasadam, Health, Vaikuntham, Laddu and Coconut stalls, temple and many other places.
Especially, around 800 Sevaks were exclusively deployed to offer Annaprasadam, milk, water to the devotees in Vaikuntham, NG Sheds, Outside Lines.
The Vigilance and Security Wing along with the Temple Wing of TTD ensured smooth movement of queue lines providing darshan to a record number of devotees.
In the last three days, around 2.4 lakh devotees had darshan of Sri Venkateswara Swamy including 90,211 on Saturday.
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