Online donation to Tirupati soon

TIRUPATI: Devotees of Lord Venkateswara of the famous hill shrine at nearby Tirumala would soon be able to make their monetary offerings by a click of the mouse when the shrine launches online donatipn facility soon.

The administration of the richest temple in the country is all set to launch 'e-donation' facility soon to tap funds in a big way from all over the world for the benefit of about a dozen charitable trusts and schemes run by it, TTD Board Chairman B Karunakara Reddy told PTI here on Thursday.

TTD Board, in its monthly meeting on August 30, would finalise the modalities of the online donation facility, he added.

He said a large number of e-mails had been pouring in from devotees from far away places in the country in general and NRIs in particular, NRI Hindu forums and organisations in the USA, England, Australia, Germany, Singapore, Japan, Malaysia and Sri Lanka seeking introduction of the facility.

He said the TTD, through its various charitable schemes and trusts, had been implementing several welfare measures such as free medical and educational facilities to the poor and physically challenged, conduct of mass marriages of thousands of poor in Andhra Pradesh twice a year and daily free meal to thousands of devotees visiting the hill temple.