🙏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 15:25:13 +0000