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Around 2.4 lakh ‘Tirupati laddus’ of the hill, a shrine of Lord Venkateswara at Tirumala near here were sold on the first day of sales at subsidized rate, at the headquarters of the 12 districts of Andhra Pradesh on Monday, a temple official said.
However, the district of Guntur is banned the sale of laddus due to the serious Covid-19 impact and the actions that meant for the district was moved to near Vijayawada, he said.
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The observation of all Covid-19 guidelines in the presence of the local government, the machinery, the devotees in the queue in TTD marriage halls and TTD Information Centres of the sacred prasadam.
All the stock of laddus sold within a couple of hours in the districts of the state, the official told PTI.
The laddu, which has a price of Rs 50 each, was sold at Rs 25 as a token of gift to the devotees during the Covid-19 lockout period, he said.
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The entry of the devotees of the more than 2,000 years, the temple that used to draw tens of thousands of people from all over the country every day during normal times, have been prohibited from March 20 to check the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
The TTD (Tirumala-Tirupati Devasthanom) that governs the cerro sanctuary is awaiting the approval of the governments of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Telangana for the transport of the laddus to the devotees in Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad during the crash, he said.
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