TIRUPATI: If all goes as per plan, then in two years from now, Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) will inaugurate a replica of Lord Venkateswara temple in the northern-most Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The temple is likely to come up close to the Vaishno Devi shrine along the Jammu-Katra highway.
The J&K administration will allocate a 100-acre land to TTD to construct a replica temple, a kalyana mandapam, a Vedic school and a hospital. A special TTD delegation comprising executive officer (EO)
Anil Kumar Singhal
, JEO P Basant Kumar and chief engineer Ramachandra Reddy along with special invitee to TTD trust board J Sekhar and YSRC MP V
Vijaya Sai Reddy
recently held talks with J&K administration, followed by inspections of two proposed sites at Dhummi and Majin.
Last December, the TTD trust board had resolved to construct two temples, one in Jammu and the other in PM Narendra Modi’s constituency, Varanasi. The trust had already built a Lord Venkateswara temple in
Kanyakumari
in the southern-most state of Tamil Nadu in 2019 at a cost of nearly 25 crore. It has also built the Lord’s temples in Haryana, New Delhi and Maharashtra. At present, construction of temples by TTD is under way at
Amaravati
, Visakhapatnam, Hyderabad and Bhubaneswar.
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