Sir, The Panchamanthra Road in Kuvempunagar is one of the busiest Roads which does not have a footpath. The Mysuru City Corporation has erected sign boards in such a way by completely blocking the footpath. Since vehicular traffic is very high on this road, people, especially kids and aged are using the Main Road itself…

Sir, As a concerned Mysurean, I would like to bring to the notice of the authorities the plight of people standing in front of the sub-urban bus stand. We have inter-city buses coming one after the other and making an entry into the sub-urban bus stand. At the same time we have the city buses…

Sir, I wish to bring to the attention of the authorities concerned my ordeal of renewing the driver’s licence (DL). I applied online for DL renewal as per the procedure, stood in three separate queues and submitted my application which took two days, at RTO Office, Mysore West. I got a prompt response the next…

Sir, This refers to the news in a section of the press that there is a proposal to link the parking lot located opposite to the Zoo and Zoo Complex via a subway or an underpass. Though it is a very good proposal, it should not meet the same fate as that of the subway…

Sir, While the pros of widening NH-275 and newer Railway lines across the Western Ghat are known only to NHAI and Indian Railways (and probably to the interested politicians and contractors), the cons are known to every citizen of West Coast, Kodagu, Malenadu and people depending on the waters of Cauvery, Krishna and Godavari rivers,…

Sir, The Layout in SBM Colony has recently been transferred from MUDA control to the MCC. By this, the residents are in no way obliged to get their khatas transferred from MUDA to MCC and it is only a formality for the Government Department to transfer the concerned files from MUDA to MCC along with…

Sir, Lot more needs to be done to reduce the extremely high noise pollution from other vehicular sources. Mainly the powerful horns being used by trucks, buses and even those vehicles ferrying school children who incessantly blow the horn to drive away (scare away) the traffic and for school vans and buses to announce their…

Sir, I am P. Madhumalesh, brother of Manoj Kumar, who died in the cylinder blast incident at IISc., Bengaluru, recently. I am writing this to clarify about a news which was published in Star of Mysore dated Dec.8 titled, “IISc. pays Rs. 10 lakh ex-gratia to city researcher’s wife.”  The actual scenario is that we…

Sir, The two-wheeler parking lot at the City Railway Station (Platform No. 6) does not have any lighting facility and it is very difficult to locate the parked vehicles on arrival at night. Repeated reminders to the personnel manning the parking have been of no avail. The Railway authorities would do well to arrange to…

Sir, What a shocking picture of ‘Tiger’ parked right below the ‘No Parking’ board! (SOM dated Dec.10). It also proves the proverb that there is darkness below the candle light! Coincidentally, the very same topic was discussed at the MGP monthly meeting on Dec.9. The guest, Traffic Police Inspector C.V. Ravi (replacing the earlier announced…