The
issuance of much awaited arjitha seva tickets for common pilgrims like Thomala,
Archana, Abhishekam and Vastram tickets under current booking commenced on
August 1 evening in the presence of TTD Tirumala Joint EO Sri KS Srinivasa
Raju.
Speaking on
the occasion, the JEO complimented the winners of the thomala and archana seva
tickets and at the same time urged the pilgrims who did not win the tickets not
to get disappointed or dejected. He said TTD will continue this new dip system
of issuing arjitha seva tickets for about a month and will continue after
seeing the response from the pilgrims. "In future we are contemplating to
use the same mechanism even to allot seva duties to Srivari Sevaks", he
added.
Adding
further he said from Tuesday (August 2) onwards, the pilgrims can enroll their
names from 11am to 5pm. "At 5.01pm, in the presence of either temple
Dy.E.O or Arjitham AEO the dip process will be carried out. The pilgrims
(winners) can take the tickets till 8.00pm and after that their opportunity is
said to be forfeited", he added.
Meanwhile
on Monday evening over 231 pilgrims enrolled their names for available 14
thomala and 10 archana tickets at the current booking counter between 6.00pm to
6.30pm at Vijaya Bank near Central Reception Office(CRO) in Tirumala. For
thomala dip.no.157-Mr.Devaraj and for Archana dip no.117-Smt.Ganga won the
first tickets.