{"id":12657,"date":"2013-03-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/03\/04\/tirumala-tirupati-devasthanams-approves-409-million-budget\/"},"modified":"2013-03-04T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T12:00:00","slug":"tirumala-tirupati-devasthanams-approves-409-million-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/03\/04\/tirumala-tirupati-devasthanams-approves-409-million-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams Approves $409 Million Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/18767914.cms?prtpage=1\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TIRUPATI, INDIA, March 2, 2013 (India Times): The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, which administers the hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara, has approved a Rs 2,248 crore (approx. US$409.4 million) budget for the fiscal year 2013-14.<\/p>\n<p>The offerings, to be made by millions of devotees in the temple hundi (offering box), was expected to fetch about US$156.5 million while the interest on investments deposited in national banks by TTD was estimated to account for US$101.1 million, TTD Board Chairman K Bapiraju told reporters, after the Board of Trustees monthly meeting held on the hills.<\/p>\n<p>The sale of various darshan and other ritual tickets is estimated to bring in US$42.1 million while auction of human hair is expected to net about US$36.4 million for the new fiscal, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The payment of salaries and wages to about 9,000 staff was expected to be a major outgo &#8212; US$61 million, besides US$26.4 million that was projected for outsourcing expenses, he said. Revised estimates of the TTD budget for 2012-13 was put at US$393.4 million, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source TIRUPATI, INDIA, March 2, 2013 (India Times): The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, which administers the hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara,,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}