TIRUPATI: Tirumala

Devasthanams administrative top brass led by executive officer Anil Kumar Singhal along with additional EO AV Dharma Reddy and other officials will inspect suitable sites for the construction of Lord Venkateswara temple in Jammu.

- the biggest temple conglomerate in the country which manages nearly four dozen temples across the country resolved to construct two more temples at Jammu and Varanasi recently.

Following the TTD trust board resolution, the richest temple administration in the country received communication from the Jammu government that four sites were shortlisted as suitable for the construction of Lord Venkateswara temple.

After receiving the intimation from the Jammu government, TTD administrative top brass led by EO Anil Kumar Singhal and other officials left for Jammu on Friday.

Speaking to reporters at Tirumala before leaving for Jammu, EO Anil Kumar Singhal said ''After TTD expressed intent to construct Lord Venkateswara temple at Jammu, the state government there shortlisted four sites as suitable for the construction of the temple. They asked us to inspect the four sites and finalize one in order to go ahead with the land allocation process. We will inspect the four sites on Saturday and Sunday and finalize one site which will be the most conducive to establish a TTD temple'', underlined Anil Singhal.

After establishing a Lord Venkateswara temple at Kanyakumari in the Southernmost state of Tamil Nadu in 2019 at a cost of nearly 25 crore, TTD is now in the process of establishing another Lord Venkateswara temple at Jammu in the northernmost state of the country.

TTD has already established its temples in different states including Haryana, New Delhi, Maharashtra and so on.

At present, construction of several new TTD temples are underway at Amaravati, Visakhapatnam, Hyderabad Bhubaneswar etc.