TTD officials told to enforce ban on plastic in Tirumala
The Hindu
Additional EO calls for awareness among devotees
Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) Additional Executive Officer A.V. Dharma Reddy on Monday appealed to the devotees to not carry plastic water bottles to the Tirumala town. Presiding over a high-level meeting at the Annamaiah Bhavan, he exhorted the heads of various departments of the TTD to ensure enforcement of a total ban on the use of plastic in Tirumala.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.