Putta Sudhakar Yadav gives clean chit to TTD marketing department

Tirumala: TTD Chairman Putta Sudhakar Yadav on Friday gave clean chit to TTDMarketing Department, brushing aside the allegations of purchase of inferior quality products by the department.

The chairman inspected the TTD lab concerned with testing of thequality of the products supplied by traders to TTD Marketing Department, required for making prasadams in temples, free food todevotees and other requirements.He also went through the results of the sample items that he himselfcollected from the Marketing Departmentgodown in Tirupati, down the hills and sent it to the lab following the reports in a section ofmedia alleging irregularities in the purchase of products.

Speaking to media persons, Sudhakar Yadav said, on October 20, he happened toinspect both marketing godown at Tirupati and testing lab in Tirumala. “I, myself brought some samples of commodities including rice,tamarind, cashew etc. and got them tested in our lab.

The finalresults showed that the quality is good,” he said.Adding further, “Almost all the ingredients passed the lab test whichshows the transparency in our purchase mechanism both at Tirupati andin Tirumala. However, to have more credibility I have instructed thevigilance wing to set up CCTVs both in godown as well in lab. I wholeheartedly appreciate the efficacy of our officials,” he maintained.