Mysuru: The impasse over allotment of alternate land to grow betel leaf to farmers, who had lost their land when the then City Improvement Trust Board (CITB) acquired their lands to develop Jayanagar- Thonachikoppal Layout in 1949, ended today. Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) allotted 5 guntas of land to 85 of the 245 beneficiaries (betel…
CITB’s Success Story Vs MUDA’s Controversies
July 27, 2024Mysore/Mysuru: The erstwhile City Improvement Trust Board (CITB) — now being formally known as Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) — had significantly improved the standard of living in Mysuru by creating many well-planned layouts and providing housing to the needy people. Now in contrast, the MUDA is facing criticism for neglecting its primary duties of…
MUDA braces for new Budget on Feb. 28
February 23, 202480,000 applicants waiting for sites! MUDA is a white elephant. It has long served its intended purpose. It has become a milch cow to politicians and the mafia-bureaucracy nexus. Best is to abolish MUDA and allow private players to fill in the vacuum under a special legislation. —K.B. Ganapathy Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA)…
Kurubarahalli Survey No.4 & Alanahalli Survey No.41: Benami properties a stumbling block in withdrawing B-Kharab classification
March 19, 2020There are ample instances where houses that were built on Government land have been regularised after obtaining applications from the encroachers. There are even many examples of regularisation of illegal layouts that were built after levelling lakes. In such a scenario, owners of legally purchased land from a Government body are put into severe hardship…
CITB’s many pro-people schemes ignored by MUDA
March 6, 2020208 houses built by CITB not distributed; 441 houses distributed then not occupied By S.T. Ravikumar If Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA), previously known as City Improvement Trust Board (CITB), distributing just 50,445 sites in over five decades comes as a surprise to many, it has to be noted that many pro-people programmes launched by…
Kurubarahalli Sy. No.4 & Alanahalli Sy. No.41: CM to decide on removing ‘B-Kharab’ classification from CITB, MUDA Layouts
March 5, 2020Mysuru/Mysore: In what could be a major relief for property owners and residents of CITB and MUDA Layouts coming under Kurubarahalli Survey No. 4 and Alanahalli Survey No. 41, who have been relentlessly fighting to get the land out of ‘B-Kharab’ (Government land) classification, Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa is set to take a decision to…
MUDA, a ‘realty’ check
March 3, 2020CITB and MUDA allot just 50,000 sites in over 50 years Private developers distribute 70,000 sites in just 20 years By S.T. Ravikumar Mysore/Mysuru: Even as the number of site applicants is rising by the year, with the number close to 1 lakh so far, it has been found in a reality check that the…
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