By Bhamy V. Shenoy The most important task for any civic body like Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) is to collect a maximum amount of Property Tax. Without adequate funding, MCC cannot fulfil its civic responsibilities of providing clean water, keeping city garbage-free, maintaining parks, ensuring safe roads, etc. As can be seen in the graph…
By Bhamy Shenoy, IIT-Madras, Oil Industry Expert Congress Party, with the support of other Opposition parties, organised a nationwide Bharat Bandh yesterday, September 10, 2018, to protest against the price rise in petrol and diesel. Congress claimed that NDA has “looted” Rs. 11 lakh crore from “common man” by imposing high taxes on petroleum products. Most…
By Bhamy V. Shenoy Recent Karnataka election has clearly showed that our democracy has a long way to mature to select honest, competent and dedicated representatives. According to Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), 49 out of 77 winners with criminal records have won against candidates with clean records and out of 49, 12 winners have…
By Dr. Bhamy V. Shenoy, Oil Industry Expert Under UPA, when crude oil prices averaged $132 per barrel in July 2008 (it was during that month Brent reached a historic high of $147/b) petrol price was just Rs. 50.62 per litre. Today when oil price is around $80/b, petrol price has reached a high of…
Mysuru: Member of the Mysore Grahakara Parishat (MGP) Bhamy V. Shenoy suggested to the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) to provide excellent service to the citizens who are paying their taxes to the Corporation. He was speaking at a meeting on ‘Creating Awareness about Consumer Rights’ organised by the MGP with the MCC officials here yesterday…
By Bhamy V. Shenoy Modi stunned the world a year back on the night of November 8th, by scrapping Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 notes. The stated goals of DeMo was to fight corruption by unearthing black money, detect counterfeit currencies, reduce terrorism by cutting off their funding. On this Anniversary Day, we need to…
By Bhamy V. Shenoy When we learnt that Bengaluru finally won the competition to be a Smart City in the fourth round, how many Mysureans asked the question why we failed the contest? In fact, we should have asked the question when the first round of twenty cities was announced in August 2015, Davangere and…
By Bhamy V. Shenoy Mysore Grahakara Parishat (MGP) The news item titled “Stalled Development atop Chamundi Hill begins: Green Tribunal gives green signal,” published in Star of Mysore dated May 11, was shocking for the reasons given in this article. The SOM story clearly shows how the authorities concerned are clearly in the dark about…
By Bhamy V. Shenoy and Ashvini Ranjan Recent visitors to Chamundi Hill who have peeked through the barricades must have wondered what happened to all the protests and Public Interest Litigation (PIL) by Mysore Grahakara Parishat (MGP). Unfortunately, construction activities on the Hill to build multi-level parking, shopping complex and shelter for pilgrims are progressing…
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