As the summer vacation is nearly over with a few schools bound to reopen from Monday, there has been a tremendous spurt in the number of devotees visiting Tirumala this week.
The summer vacation rush was at its peak from May 15 onwards.
On Fridays, due to the Abhishekam and other special sevas, the time available for general ‘darshan’ usually reduces by two to three hours.
Consequently, under normal circumstances, only around 60,000 to 65,000 devotees are able to have darshan on Fridays.
However, with the continuous monitoring by senior officials and with the coordinated efforts of various departments of TTD, over 10,000 additional devotees have been facilitated for darshan on each Friday during May and June this year.
The recent Friday darshan statistics revealed that 74,374 devotees took darshan on May 23, 71,721 on May 30, and 72,174 on June six.
Notably, on June 13 (Friday), a record-breaking 75,096 devotees had the divine darshan of Sri Venkateswara Swamy.
