By Bhamy V. Shenoy Since it is of utmost importance to get high marks in PU examinations, most serious students skip all their extra curricular activities. Like Arjuna, while trying to shoot the eye of the bird, was concentrating only on the eye, the current PU students concentrate only on securing high marks. Our students…
Annual Status Education Report-2018
January 21, 2019Children from government schools studying in Std. III, Std. V and Std. VIII can read a Std. II level text better than their counterparts in private schools. The 13th Annual Status Education Report (ASER-2018) of Karnataka State was released recently in Mysuru by Ashvini Ranjan, Managing Trustee, Pratham Mysore. Facilitated by Pratham, ASER is carried…
Time to develop a digitised Property Tax system is NOW
December 3, 2018By 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…
Petrol & Diesel: Do we see fake news floating?
September 11, 2018By 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…
Educated class must get involved in democratic process: Why blame politicians?
July 16, 2018By 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…
Rise in Petrol Price: P. Chidambaram should not mislead the country
May 25, 2018By 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…
MGP demands quality service from MCC for tax-paying citizens
December 13, 2017Mysuru: 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…
One year of Demonetisation: Black Day or beginning of an epic war against Corruption?
November 8, 2017By 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…
Bengaluru enters Smart City list… How and why Mysuru lost the contest to be a Smart City?
June 27, 2017By 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…
Chamundi Hill Development: Half Truth by authorities – MGP to file case in Supreme Court
May 15, 2017By 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…















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