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Technocrat Chandrasekhar Thota donates Rs 1 crore to TTD's Pranadana trust
TIRUPATI: Non resident Indian technocrat Chandrasekhar Thota has donated Rs.1 cr to
Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams
Sri Venkateswara Pranadana trust on Thursday.
Chandu Thota, who works as the Vice President at Google, is an ardent devotee of Lord Venkateswara and has been visiting Tirumala for many years now.
The Indian origin technocrat settled in the United States of America along with his family members offered prayers to Lord Venkateswara at the Tirumala temple earlier in the morning and later on met TTD chairman BR Naidu at the latter's camp office on the hill town and handed over the donation of Rs 1 crore in the form of a cheque to SV Pranadana trust.
TTD chairman BR Naidu stated that the Pranadana trust established by the TTD offers world-class medical and healthcare services at free of cost to the needy patients from below the poverty line.
Sri Padmavathi super specialty hospital for children, recently established by the TTD, which is linked to SV Pranadanam trust, has so far successfully performed more than 2000 heart surgeries free of cost for children from the economically underprivileged sections of the society.
While the super specialty hospital for children is functioning from a makeshift premises at present, the Tirupati trust has been pooling in funds to the tune of Rs.400 cr through donations to the Pranadana trust for establishing the world-class super specialty hospital for children along the along the Tirupati-Cherlopalli road in the city and the works of the permanent building are expected to be completed by the end of this year.
