INDIA, February 22, 2014 (TTD Devastanams): The TTD Trust board under the leadership of its Chairman Sri K. Bapi Raju has approved an approximately US$388 million budget for the fiscal year 2014-15.
The TTD board chief briefing the media persons on the expected income through various means said that the offerings to be made by millions of devotees in the temple hundi (offering box), are expected to fetch about $135 million while the interest on investments deposited in national banks by TTD was estimated to account for $106 million. The sale of human hair (a common penance at the temple is to have the head shaved) is expected to bring $31 million to TTD coffers, prasadams sale profiting TTD up to $31 million, and on rentals TTD is expecting an income of $17.5 million during the financial year 2014-15.
Meanwhile TTD has allotted $24 million to the Engineering department, $17.6 million towards Hindu Dharma Prachara activities, about $14 million towards education, a sum of $14.8 million on Health and Sanitation, $8.4 million to TTD Vigilance and Security wing and $5.8 million towards the development of TTD-run hospitals.