President of India Pratibha Patil will visit Hyderabad on 2 July.
She will stay in Hyderabad till July 5, and leave for Tirupati on July 6.
In Tirumala, she will inaugurate the newly-built Annadana Satram, and then fly back to New Delhi.
The new Annadana Satram is a complex in which the TTD's Nitya Annadanam, a free meal scheme launched in 1984 to feed pilgrims, will be conducted. The new Satram is housed in a 2-acre site in the north-east corner of the hill temple of Lord Venkateswara.
And a new complex isn't the only thing that the TTD can boast about - for the Annadana Satram, the TTD has installed a massive multi-crore roti-making machine that can churn out 2,000 rotis per hour.
Pilgrims will now be served free dal and rotis/vegetables, options added to the existing menu of sweet Pongal, rice, chutney, sambar and rasam. The new items are being served to meet requirements of north-Indian devotees.
The roti-maker was bought from Coimbatore, and its functioning studied an Amritsar, where a similar machine is set up. TTD officials were sent to the Amritsar Golden Temple to learn how it works..