Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Saturday, Nov 09, 2002
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Saturday, Nov 09, 2002 |
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Supply Chain Management You can mail order `prasadam' Our Bureau
HYDERABAD, Nov. 8 AFTER haleem, the traditional dish eaten by Muslims during Ramadan, the Department of Posts (DoP) will now reach prasadam and sell tickets for a yagna to be performed at the Srisailam temple during January 9-29, 2003, through its network of post offices in Andhra Pradesh. The DoP has entered into an agreement with the Shree Giri Vedic Research Foundation, New Delhi, which is organising the yagna. Accordingly, the DoP will book prasadam orders at Rs 116 and home deliver them through 16,000 post offices, 80 per cent of them in rural areas of Andhra Pradesh. Plans are also on to sell about 10 lakh tickets from November 14 to January 25. Another ticket of Rs 1,516 with a ceiling of 1,800 per day for those who want to participate personally will also be offered, said Mr T.S. Govindarajan, Chief Post Master General of AP Circle. The prasadam will be sent by Speed Post from February 1. Plans are also afoot to create a Web site for order booking and also opening the facility in the southern States and New Delhi for the distribution of prasadam, said Mr Nataraja Murthi, Chief Business Development Manager of the DoP, New Delhi. The Vice-President, Mr Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, will participate in the first day of the yagna being performed for universal peace and prosperity, said Vishwanath Swamyji, Chairman of the Foundation. The Foundation was scouting for a courier company but went in favour of the DoP, he told newspersons. He said the Foundation was giving one rudraksha mala to every male devotee visiting the Srisailam temple, and similarly a pair of bangles and kumkum to female devotees. While the rudrakshas were being imported from Indonesia, the bangles are sourced from Uttar Pradesh. Ambitious targets of distributing 50 lakh malas in the next 10 years and about 40-50 lakh bangles annually have been set.
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