Devotee donates Rs 1 crore to Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam trust

Darpan News Desk IANS, 09 Dec, 2016 12:24 PM

A devotee from Delhi donated over Rs 1 crore to Sri Venkateswara Pranadanam Trust of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) which runs the affairs of India's richest temple here.

N.S. Padmanabhan donated Rs. 1,00,11,101 to the trust, which provides free medical facilities to poor.

According to TTD, the donor is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer from the national capital.

Padmanabhan met TTD Joint Executive Officer K.S. Sreenivasa Raju at the latter's camp office in Tirumala and handed over the Demand Draft.

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