Sir, This refers to our City Police Commissioner K.T. Balakrishna issuing a very comprehensive safety guidelines  to all schools which is timely and commendable (SOM dated May 11). I went through it and wish to suggest one more addition to the list. I do not know whether it is mandatory that all school buses must…

Sir, This refers to the news “Cow Attack” in SOM dated June 9. Stray cattle menace is all around the city on every road. Road users are at severe risk as these animals roam freely. The civic body is highly irresponsible in dealing with this menace as owners of these animals hardly care for the…

Sir, The news of a cow attack on two women walkers at Kukkarahalli Lake makes a disturbing read (SOM dated June 9). But, it was an incident or accident waiting to happen, given the  apathy of the authorities concerned and  the utter negligence of the security personnel deployed at the Lake who allow all kinds…

Sir, The presently running Tipu Express and Chamundi Express trains’ coach composition consists of just a single AC coach (that is, AC Chair Car Coach- C1) apart from general sitting coaches. It is ironical to note that no effort is yet made by the authorities concerned to augment an additional air conditioned chair coaches in…

Sir, While reading the story of Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa (SOM dated May 28 – 30, 2019), I remembered seeing that great personality when I was a high school boy in Hunsur. It was in 1955-56 or so. The Field Marshal was retired and was freely moving from Madikeri to Bangalore and other places. Whenever…

Sir, Stray dogs have increased in huge numbers in and around Vijayanagar 2nd Stage and surely in other parts of the city. It is for several years, a repeating ‘menace’ that the citizens have been facing. There were many plans of controlling stray dogs in the city but time and again, the problem resurfaces troubling…

Sir, An overflowing drainage is soaking the bricks (see picture) that labourers each morning, with unprotected hands, lift and use for constructing a building. They are unaware of the lurking health issues, hand bruises that can result in serious diseases like tetanus, gas gangrene and several other illnesses. Complaints to the City Corporation has not…

Sir, The article titled “Are you HAPPY at what you are doing?” by N.K.A. Ballal in Star of Mysore dated  June 6 is worth reading several times. We, as adults, frame the future of our child by fixing two lines and expect them to fit their future within this framework. We never try to identify…

Sir, Train number 16209/16210 Mysuru-Ajmer Express runs as a Weekly train with stops only at Mandya, Ramanagaram, Bengaluru Station and then continues on Hubballi-Miraj-Pune-Vadodra-Ahmedabad route till Ajmer. The train thus provides a vital connectivity on Bengaluru-Pune section upon commencing its journey from Mysuru but only without a commercial stop at Kengeri. Such a move has…

Sir, I endorse the views of N. Devarajan of Nanjangud (Star of Mysore dated May 15) on the need for Bus Shelters near Devaraj Urs bridge (Nanjangud). Same is the case at the Gun House Circle in Mysuru. Sans any shelter, presently people bound for Nanjangud side are forced to stand in the open exposing…