Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam. Richest Hindu Temple Board in the world. Net worth of the TTD is more than 3 lakh crores. It is bigger than the budgets of multiple Indian states.
As per the financial year 2025-26, annual income of TTD is 5,394 crore. And, daily average 14 crores income.
Let’s understand where that money comes from.
- Hundi collections, 1,738 crores.
- Interest on fixed deposits, 1,310 crores. It means, 18,000 to 20,000 crore deposits of TTD.
- Prasadham and Laddu sales, 600 crores.
- Darshanam tickets, 310 crores.
- Accommodation and Mandapam rents, 157 crores.
- Other incomes like donation to trust, publication, auctions and miscellaneous receipts 1,104 crores.
Let’s also understand the expenses side. Total 16,000 employees are working under TTD.
- They spent 1,757 crores for salaries.
- Hospitals, 156 crores.
- Education Institutions, 189 crores.
- Daily groceries purchases like ghee, pulses and other items, 768 crores. And capital expenditures, 350 crores.
- And also they send around 44 lakhs per day for Annaprasadham for devotees.
Another interesting thing is that TTD has “7,800 kgs of gold” deposit with SBI. Every year, that income comes interest to 195 kgs of gold, automatically, compound it was standing.
And also, TTD constructed 2,445 temples in AP, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, USA, and UK. TTD is running 33 education institutions like schools and colleges, and four multispecialty hospitals.
Everything comes as donations from devotees. God doesn't need to buy anything at all. Everything is received through donations. Including from pachakarpuram to gold ,diamonds.
For millions of people, Tirumala is not just a temple. It is where fear becomes faith, where pain becomes prayer, where people come carrying the burdens they cannot explain to the world. For centuries, those prayers built something bigger than money, politics, and power. They built one of the greatest spiritual institutions in human history.
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