ANNAPRASADAM TO BE PROVIDED TO ADDITIONAL 1.2 LAKH PILGRIMS
TIRUMALA, OCTOBER 05, 2024: Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh N Chandra Babu Naidu has opened an advanced and fully furnished kitchen located on the Outer Ring Road on the rear side of Panchajanyam Rest House in Tirumala on Saturday.
The kitchen costing around Rs.13.45 crore is designed and constructed on a plinth area of 37,245 sq.ft with modern facilities for cooking, storing food grains, Vegetables & Milk – on the Ground Floor, preparation of food on the First Floor, Steam-based Cooking with boilers run by LPG and an exhaust system for providing ambient weather for the workers.
Purpose
Whenever there is a heavy influx of pilgrims during holidays and at the weekends, this new centralized kitchen has been planned to serve 1.20 lakh pilgrims, the prepared food i.e. pulihora, sambar rice, pongal and upma on a day at the Counters already established at CRO- Central Reception Office, PAC- I, Ram Bagicha Rest House Bus Stand, Food counters along the outer Q lines.
Endowments Minister Rama Narayana Reddy, Local MLA Srinivasulu, Additional EO Ch Venkaiah Chowdary, JEOs Goutami and Veerabrahmam, CVSO Sridhar, CE Satyanarayana, DyEO Annaprasadam Rajendra, Special Catering Officer GLN Shastry and others were present.
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