Urban Development Minister Byrathi Basavaraj and District Minister S.T. Somashekar hold progress review meeting at MCC Mysore/Mysuru: Local bodies including the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) are well-known for their poor revenue mobilisation efforts. Tax loopholes, pilferages of water are aplenty often leading to a frequent rise in taxes, burdening the honest and allowing the dishonest…
8,000 homes at Vijayanagar 4th Stage to get water from three Tanks
July 17, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Minister in-Charge of Mysuru District S.T. Somashekar and Minister for Urban Development Byrathi Basavaraj yesterday inaugurated the project of distributing drinking water by the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) at Vijayanagar 4th Stage. They inaugurated an overhead tank that has a capacity of storing 10 lakh litres built by MUDA and also two new…
Hotel Owners appeal for roll back of 20 percent hike in trade licence fee
July 17, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: With the MCC hiking trade licence fee by 20 percent this year, the Mysuru Hotel Owners Association has appealed Urban Development Minister Byrathi Basavaraj for rolling back the fee hike. In a memorandum submitted to the Minister here on Friday, Association President C. Narayanagowda said that the MCC has hiked the trade licence fee…
DEMOLISH, REBUILD Devaraja Market & Lansdowne Building
July 16, 2021Urban Development Minister earmarks Rs. 100 crore for Devaraja Market Rs. 45 crore for Lansdowne Building; Final decision in two months Mysore/Mysuru: Ending years of controversy surrounding two iconic structures of Mysuru City, Urban Development Minister Byrathi Basavaraj today announced that both Lansdowne Building and Devaraja Market will be demolished and reconstructed in its original…
Hale Unduwadi Drinking Water Project – A bird’s eye view
July 16, 2021Phase 1: 30-month deadline Project aim : To provide bulk water supply to Mysuru city, MUDA areas and villages Mysuru comprises 117 villages adjacent to MCC, MUDA region and city Mysuru Local Planning Area (2021) acquires a total area of 509.03 sq km within MUDA limits Hale Unduwadi scheme draws water from Krishna Raja Sagar…
Open Town Hall multi-level parking facility to public soon, Minister directs MCC
July 16, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: If everything goes well, owners of four-wheelers and two-wheelers can safely park their vehicles inside the Town Hall multi-level parking facility in city soon. After inspecting the multi-level parking area, Urban Development Minister Byrathi Basavaraj directed the authorities of Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) to complete the pending works and make it available to public….
LED lights to replace ornamental streetlights on Ring Road: Minister
March 13, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: The ornamental streetlights on Ring Road in Mysuru will be replaced by Centrally controlled and maintained LED lights, said Urban Development Minister Byrati Basavaraj. Replying to Sandesh Nagaraj (JD-S) during Question hour in the State Legislative Council here on Tuesday, the Minister said MCC has floated tender for this work. The purpose of…
Restoration of Lansdowne Building, Devaraja Market after Court’s verdict
February 3, 2021Bengaluru: Urban Development Minister Byrathi Basavaraj said that restoration of 129-year-old Lansdowne Building and 137-year-old Devaraja Market in Mysuru will be taken up only after the receipt of report from the Special Heritage Committee as well as final orders of Karnataka High Court. He was answering to questions raised by Chamaraja MLA L.Nagendra on whether…
MP appeals Ministers to regularise all Revenue Layouts in MCC limits
October 15, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: MP Pratap Simha met Urban Development Minister Byrathi Basavaraj and Mysuru District Minister S.T. Somashekar, who is also the Co-operation Minister, separately at Bengaluru recently and appealed them to regularise all the 77 Revenue Layouts coming under Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) limits. In a memorandum submitted to the two Ministers, Pratap Simha sought regularisation…
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