‘E-procurement’ is the new buzzword of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), which spends up to ₹500 crore a year to procure raw material for making laddu and other anna prasadams.
Taking into cognizance the large volume of its requirements, the IT-savvy TTD has already bid adieu to the offline tender system and espoused the ‘e-tendering’ system in order to bring in transparency in the procedure.
The TTD has a robust procurement system in place that avoids human interference.