Here are a couple of interesting financial facts on the
world famous Tirumala
Tirupati Balaji
Temple
The Hundi collection in the financial year 2012-13 was 885
crore.
Coins offered in the hundi alone add up to Rupees 2.5 crore
a month
Foreign currency notes in the hundi add up to 1.5 crore a
month.
Tirumala Tirupati Devaswom board earns about Rupees 200
crore from auctioning human hair.
Prasadam sales mainly Laddu, fetch Rs.140 crore a year.
In a month on an average, soiled notes worth Rupees 1 crore are found in the hundi.
45 tonnes of foreign coins of unidentified origin are now in
TTD’s custody.
Devotees offer about 100 kg of gold a month in the hundi.
TTD has a total silver stack of more than 20 tonnes.
TTD’s salary bill is about Rupees 25 crore a month.
Even the dust in the hundi is weighed and analyzed for
fragments of valuable metal that can be salvaged.