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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>TTD Board Chairman meets Sonia Gandhi </b>
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TIRUPATI: TTD Trust Board Chairperson B. Karunakar Reddy on Tuesday called on UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi about the various schemes the TTD has been taking up with a ‘social slant’.

TTD sources said that in the meeting with Ms Sonia Gandhi, Mr Reddy sought to showcase to her what the TTD claims as its ‘path-breaking’ programmes such as the ‘Dalita Govindam’, ‘Masthya Govindam’ ‘Girijana Govindam’ Kalyanamasthu and such other programmes aimed at teaching rudiments of temple rituals to those serving as priests in the Dalitwadas and tribal colonies. He also reportedly briefed her about the series of spiritual programmes which the TTD launched in recent times to take the deity to the doorsteps of the ‘aam admi’. He is said to have cited in this context the ‘Bhakti Chaithanya Yathralu’, ‘Srivari Kalyanam’ and so on.

Mr. Reddy also took the occasion to apprise the UPA chief about the TTD launching its own television channel -- ‘Sri Venkateswara Bhakthi Channel’ (SVBC), to telecast the various rituals, fairs and festivals conducted in the temple of Lord Venkateswara and other TTD-controlled temples in and around Tirupati.

To meet President

Mr Reddy accompanied by the TTD’s Executive Officer, K.V. Ramanachary, is expected to call on President Pratibha Patil. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->