President to inaugurate TTD Platinum Jubilee Celebrations on July 7

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President to inaugurate TTD Platinum Jubilee Celebrations on July 7

 

 

 

AMUDALA SATYANARAYANA

 

 

 

TIRUPATI, JULY 5, 2008; (TIRUPATITIMES.COM) Unprecedented security

arrangements have been made for President Prtaibha Patil who would

inaugurate the Platinum Jubilee celebrations called as

" Amruthotsavam " of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD),

which administers the famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara, here on

July 7.

 

 

 

Renigunta Airport, Tirupati , Tirumala and the connecting routes

including both the up and the down ghat roads leading to the Hill temple

have been covered with a thick security blanket of central and state

forces.

 

 

 

The President would arrive here by an IAF aircraft at 5.30 pm on July 6

on a two-day visit, temple sources told.

 

 

 

AAfter overnight stay at the high-security Padmavathy Guest House on the

Tirumala hills, she would participate in the pre-dawn ritual 'Archana

Seva' conducted to the presiding deity of Lord Venkateswara at the hill

shrine in the wee hours of July 7.

 

 

 

Before inaugurating the celebrations, she would launch the Sri

Venkateswara Bakthi Channel, a satellite TV channel funded by the TTD,

and inaugurate the new Building of Sri Venkateswara Oriental College

here.

 

 

 

Later, Mrs. Patil would participate in the Platinum Jubilee celebrations

followed by the maiden convocation of the Sri Venkateswara Institute of

Medical Sciences (SIVMS), both to be held at TTD's Air-conditioned

Mahati Auditorium here.

 

 

 

The President would leave Tirupati at 1.30 pm, the sources said.

 

 

 

The sources also said that TTD would be conducting the Platinum Jubilee

Celebrations to mark the completion of 75 years for the TTD, which had

taken the reigns of the hill temple in 1933 from Sri Swamy Hathiranjee

Mutt, a Charitable out-fit.

 

 

 

To look-after the affairs of the over 2000 year old hill temple, the

then combined Madras State legislature had passed a special act in 1933

where by the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) committee was invested

with powers of administration and control through a commissioner

appointed by the Government Madras, the sources added.

 

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