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The Tirumala temple successful Andhra Pradesh. (Express Archives)
The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam’ (TTD) Board, which manages Andhra Pradesh’s Sri Venkateswara temple has transferred 18 employees “practicing and participating successful non-Hindu spiritual activities”, The Indian Express has learnt.
Six of the employees are teachers astatine assorted TTD acquisition institutes, according to the TTD’s enforcement bid released connected February 1. The others see a lawman enforcement serviceman (Welfare), an adjunct enforcement officer, an adjunct method serviceman (electrical) , a hostel worker, 2 electricians, and 2 nurses.
This comes months aft the board had decided to transportation non-Hindus and prohibition governmental speeches astatine a gathering held successful November — the archetypal held by the TTD since its incumbent chairman, B R Naidu, was sworn successful that month.
Among those transferred is Dr K V Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy, a prof astatine the S V Ayurvedic College astatine Tirupati, K Sujatha and G Asuntha, lecturer and main astatine the SPW Degree and PG College astatine Tirupati; K Prathap is simply a lecturer astatine SGS Arts College; K Manekshaw Dayan, a lecturer astatine S V Arts College; and Dr Renu Dixit, main astatine SV Ayurvedic College astatine Tirupati. Also transferred are A Ananda Raju, lawman enforcement serviceman (welfare department, TTD), and A Rajashekar Babu, Assistant EO (Auctions).
In the bid issued by TTD Executive Officer J Syamala Rao, the committee says that the 18 employees person been transferred to different posts. It goes connected to accidental that arsenic “dedicated servants of the Lord Venkteshwara and the esteemed TTD, each the TTD employees are committed to support the sanctity of the temple by upholding the traditions and values that person been followed for centuries and to uphold the beliefs and sentiments of the devotees”.
The bid states that the 18 employees person been identified arsenic those practicing and participating successful non-Hindu spiritual activities adjacent though “they person taken the oath earlier Lord Venkateshwara stating that they volition travel the Hindu dharma and Hindu traditions lone and besides stating that they volition not travel non-Hindu spiritual activities successful compliance of Rule 9 (vi) issued successful GO No 1060 of Revenue Department (Endowments) connected October 24, 1989”.
Even aft taking the oath, the 18 employees were practising and participating successful non-Hindu spiritual activities and besides taking portion successful Hindu spiritual fairs, festivals, and functions conducted by the TTD, the bid says, claiming that this” impacts the sanctity, sentiments and beliefs of crores of Hindu devotees”.
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The bid besides directs TTD’s main technologist and lawman enforcement serviceman (HR) to guarantee that the 18 radical are not posted astatine immoderate spot successful 1) Tirumala; 2) immoderate temple; and 3) immoderate spiritual programme related work.
Others transferred are NC Bheemanna, a declaration worker astatine the S V Arts College; V B Komala Devi with the bureau of the Director Sri Venkateswara Employees Training Academy (AVETA); M Sekhar, an electrician successful the energy department, TTD; BIRRD Hospital caput caregiver T Kalyani and unit nurses A Sowbhagyam and S Rosi, T Narayana Swamy, a medico nursing serviceman astatine S V Poor Home, G Asservadam, an Assistant Technical Officer (Electrical), and G Gopi, a radiographer astatine Central Hospital, Tirupati.
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