Interesting facts about Tirupati TTD salary bill is about Rs.25 crore a month Even the dust in the hundi is weighed & analysed for fragments of valuable metal that can be salvaged About 8000 kg of rice & 3 tonnes of vegetables are consumed daily in kitchen Vegetables for Annadhanam are donated on ongoing basis by 9 donors from south India TTD s silver stock is 20 tonnes currently Prasadam sales mainly laddu fetch Rs.140 crore a yr. The hundi in the temple earned Rs.870 crore in 2013-14 Coins offered in hundi alone is Rs.2.5 crore a month The Lords kitchen consumes over 3600 tonnes of ghee & 600 tonnes of cashews per annum Tirumala consumes 800 million gallons of water per year and has 4 dams.. The laddu has a geographical indicator tag which means its patented and cant be copied. The inner potu where Naivedhyem offering to Lord are prepared still runs on firewood. The free meals under Nithya Annadhanam scheme feed about 60000 pilgrims daily The Nithya Annadhanam scheme with current corpus of Rs.436 crore is almost fully funded by donations Devotees offer about 100 kg of gold in a month in hundi alone Foreign currency notes in hundi add up to Rs.1.5 crore a month Soiled notes of Rs. 1 crore a Month on average are found in hundi . References taken from The Hindu - SRIVARI BRAHMOTSAVAM 2014
Posted on: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 14:20:51 +0000
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