Tirumala laddu padi ticket price hiked TIRUPATI, SEPT.9 :TIRUPATITIMES.COM The price of Laddu prasadam sold on the recommendation letters at the famous hill shrine of lord Venkateswara at Tirumala near here has been hiked one and half times with immediate effect. The price of Rs.100 Laddu Padi Ticket (LPT) to obtain 10 laddus on the recommendation letters issued by different influential sections including VIPs, politicians ,officials of all the four estates and business magnates since last one decade has been enhanced and started selling it to Rs.250 from this evening. The newly constituted eleven member TTD Board with Mr.B.Karunakara Reddy as its Chairman in its first meeting held on the hills today has taken this decision. He said that the decision was taken to curb laddu black marketing on the hills and also other unholy usages of laddus including distribution of laddus during weddings and political activities. The price of Rs. 75 big laddu called as kalyanam laddu has also been hiked to Rs.100. he announced. The board also decided to construct three mega guest houses consisting of about 850 suites for the benefit of common devotees on the hills besides two massive pilgrim amenities complexes, he said. The Board also decided to sell Bhundi prasadam weighing about 175 grams (the same quantity of each laddu) filled in well packed pouches made on par with the pouches of multinational food or biscuit companies, Mr. Reddy said adding that the boondhii would be sold only when there is heavy demand for laddus due to very heavy rush of devotees on the hills. http://www.tirupatitimes.com/ <http://www.tirupatitimes.com/> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SriRangaSri/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: SriRangaSri-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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