Sir, This refers to the recent news item titled “Govt. makes ration card mandatory to obtain Birth and Death Certificates.” I had a ration card (may be 12 years old) with just my deceased wife’s photo. My two daughters (now adults) and my photo was missing. I took my old ration card to KarnatakaOne to…

Sir, The road in Vijayanagar 2nd Stage (from Trinetra Circle to Water Tank) is rightly named as ‘High Tension’ Road as pedestrians and motorists will have ‘highest tension’ while using this road. Adding to the troubles, UGD work started a few weeks ago and has stopped abruptly. The already narrow road with very high traffic…

Sir, I reside on V.B. Bakery Road, Srirampura 3rd Stage. I would like to bring to the notice of the authorities concerned that the quality of Kabini water we are getting for the last 15 days is not good. The water supplied is very hard, causing difficulty in cooking dal. Besides there is scale formation…

Sir,  This has reference to the recent news item advising owners of residences to disconnect rain water from terrace from joining the UGD line as the latter is not designed to handle excessive flow during rainy season and other consequences thereof. VVWW has recently awakened to the fact of too small size of UGD pipes…

Sir, As a concerned resident of Mysuru, I would like to raise the issue of an unsafe traffic pole present in Dattagalli Ring Road. As seen in the picture, the traffic pole is highly tilted. It would be on the verge of collapsing in the event of heavy showers or wind. I am afraid that…

Sir, On Lingambudhi Lake Bund Road from Preethi Layout to Lingambudhi village, there are two huge rain trees. In the first rain tree, a huge branch is separated from the trunk and is hanging with support of another branch. It is hanging in a very dangerous condition and a strong wind will definitely bring it…

Sir, The road leading to Mysore Airport does not have street lights. The cement barricades, placed in the middle of the roads, do not have reflective stickers. These are classic recipe for a major accident ! Due to lack of street lights, all the vehicular traffic move on with high beam lights in the evening,…

Sir, We senior citizens and ladies experience a lot of hardship to catch buses towards Ballal Circle and so on at RTO bus stop. There are two bus stops — one in front of the Petrol Bunk and other in the end of Vani Vilas Road. Many buses coming from Ramaswamy Circle stop in front…

Sir, India’s glorious victory down under has brought back memories of a Test match nearly 70 years ago. Though India had started playing Test cricket from 1932 onwards, we had not won a single Test match for nearly 20 years. We would lose most of the matches and occasionally draw a match. India would consider…

Sir, Recently there have been a spate of letters in SOM about whether it was feasible to fix interlocking tiles on the bund road around the Kukkarahalli Lake or not.  At present, since it is not paved, it becomes slushy during rainy season and so becomes unuseable. But then, if the road is paved and…