Sir, The recent Income Tax and ED raid in Bowring Institute (a reputed Club in Bengaluru), wherein three lockers belonging to one Avinash Amarlal Kukreja, a city-based financier was forcibly opened by Club authorities, throws up interesting aspects of human greed and avarice. The Club had sent him a routine notice asking him to pay…

Sir, The much-hyped multi-level vehicle parking at the Town Hall premises may not see light in the near future. Looks like the contractor to whom this work was entrusted has left the site executing about 6% of the work. Probably the authorities concerned would have diluted all penal clauses in favour of the contractor, so…

Sir, Heaps of dry leaves and garbage are piled up in front of my house for the last several weeks. The pourakarmikas dump it just in front of the compound of my residential house at No. 10, Vivekananda Road, Yadavagiri, after cleaning the street. It has caused a great deal of inconvenience and anguish to…

Sir, With the construction of the Outer Ring Road and subsequent usage of the same by the users a decade ago, the traffic density has doubled. In the recent past many major and minor accidents have taken place frequently.  I wonder why the Railways in collaboration the local MCC are not taking up the work…

Sir, Apropos the Dog and Pig menace at various localities in city  (SOM dated 4.7.2018 and 7.7.2018),  the  Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) staff have visited the spots at Gokulam on 9.7.2018 and Srirampura 2nd Stage on 10.7.2018, and captured the unsterilised dogs. Majority of the dogs found were sterilised. As per the Animal Birth Control…

Sir, I am a senior citizen aged 70 and had ventured to have darshan of Goddess Chamundeshwari on the special occasion of First Ashada Friday. It took me two hours to get Rs. 50 ticket for darshan standing in line from 6 am to 8 am. I could get my turn for darshan only at…

Sir, I wish to bring to the notice of the concerned about non-repair of street-lights at 23rd Main, 25th Cross, JP Nagar, since April 2018. Regarding this, a complaint has been given by my neighbour on 6th April 2018 but till today they have not come to repair and one more street-light by the side…

Sir, We, the residents of Vijayanagar 3rd Stage, thank the DFO and RFO, Urban Greening, Aranya Bhavan, Mysuru, for acceding to our request and planting around 1,000 tree saplings in our area in the first two weeks of July 2018. M.N. Subramani, President, Tree Lovers’ Club, has secured over 200 saplings by protecting them with…

Replace ornate stone balustrades with cement Sir, This is with reference to the news item “Raja Marga in a shambles” (Star of Mysore dated July 6) wherein it is reported that, the ornate stone balustrades have crumbled. I want to educate the decision maker / makers that, these Granite Ornate stone balustrades are made by…

Sir, This refers to the report “Raja Marga in a shambles” (SOM dated July 9). Raja Marga was a very ill-conceived project.  The laying of interlocking concrete tiles to cover all the footpaths was another similar misadventure. Both have cost a huge outflow of public funds without any returns commensurate with the expenditure entailed. Such…