TTD forms two committees to hand over ex gratia to families of Tirupati stampede victims
The HinduThe Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams Chairman B.R. Naidu on Saturday announced constitution of two committees comprising members of the Trust Board to personally visit and distribute the ex gratia cheques of ₹25 lakh each to the six families who had lost their beloved ones in the Tirupati stampede. The committee members accompanied by local legislators will hand over the cheques to the bereaved families on January 12 and collect information for providing a contract job to the kin and free education to their children in the TTD-run institutions. The committee visiting Visakhapatnam and Narsipatnam consists of board members Jyothula Nehru, Janga Krishnamurthy and Panabaka Lakshmi, while the other one consisting of Rama Murthy, Krishna Murthy Vaidyanathan and Suchitra Ella will visit the families belonging to Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Meanwhile, in the evening, Mr. Naidu formally handed over cheques to the families of seven injured who are still undergoing treatment at SVIMS hospital in Tirupati.