Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams Allocates 7 Acres Land For Eye Hospital

The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) board of trustees announced that their administration would allocate seven acres of land owned by it in Tirupathi for setting up a Rs 100 crore eye hospital by renowned Arvind Eye Care Hospital based in Madurai in Tamil Nadu.

A decision to this effect was taken at the monthly meeting of TTD, which manages the cash-rich temple in Tirumala and several others in Andhra Pradesh.

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The Aravind Eye Care System has come forward to construct a mega eye hospital in this temple town at a cost of Rs 100 crore for the benefit of pilgrims, 10,000-strong staff of TTD and local public, said TTD Board Chairman Chadalavada Krishnamurthy.

TTD would collect Rs seven lakh as annual rental charge for the land to be allotted to the eye hospital here, he said.

The Aravind Eye Care Hospitals, a World Health Organization collaborating centre for prevention of blindness, runs eye hospitals in 10 locations in Tamil Nadu.

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The hospitals were named after spiritual leader Sri Aurobindo.

The TTD Board also decided to construct a Lord Venkateswara temple and also a shrine of Lord Maha Ganapathi at Banajara Hills in Hyderabad at a total cost of Rs.13.89 crore, Krishnamurthy said.

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