Devotees were all praise for the spontaneous gesture displayed by Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams Chairman Y.V. Subba Reddy, who ordered laying of a green carpet on a war footing along the trekking route leading to the sacred shrine of Lord Venkateswara.
The footpath leading to the hill temple from Alipiri is wholly covered with an over-roof ceiling but for a small stretch of about a kilometre where it joins the first ghat road between the Narasimha Swamy temple and the Mokalla Mitta hills.