Yaduveer demands disbanding of Heritage Panel and formation of new one with real experts Mysuru: Mincing no words against the District Heritage Committee that has recommended the demolition of Devaraja Market and Lansdowne Building, titular head of erstwhile Mysore royal family Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar — while launching a protest rally to save Devaraja Market…
Mysore/Mysuru: Protesting against the Mysuru District Heritage Committee’s decision to demolish heritage Devaraja Market and Lansdowne Building, paving way for new ‘heritage like’ structures in their place, tenants of Devaraja Market have decided to close their shops for half-a-day tomorrow from 9.30 am to 1 pm. The tenants will take out a procession from Devaraja…
Seek support of Mysore royal family; Public meeting in a day or two Mysuru: The Mysuru District Heritage Committee’s recent decision to demolish and reconstruct the heritage Devaraja Market and Lansdowne Building in ‘heritage-like style’ has not gone down well with the stakeholders like tenants of Devaraja Market and heritage experts. They have now reached…
Opinion to be submitted to the High Court and State Government, says DC Structurally weak buildings to be razed but heritage design to be retained Mysore/Mysuru: The Mysuru District Heritage Committee that met at the Deputy Commissioner’s (DC) Office yesterday under the leadership of DC Dr. Bagadi Gautham, who is also the Chairman of the…
Meeting next week with Tenants Association and Chamaraja MLA, says MCC Commissioner Mysore/Mysuru: If the Karnataka High Court accepts the opinion of the Mysuru District Heritage Committee to demolish the Devaraja Market and Lansdowne Building, the dilapidated structures will make way for new heritage-like buildings. In such a scenario, the main task of the Mysuru…
If summer is here, can monsoon be far away? No. Come May-June, the blue sky above will turn grey and then black; wind will move faster and scorched earth would drench itself with the copious rain from above. Rains, in the beginning, come like thieves. Stealthily. Unpredictably. Poor two-wheeler riders are often caught unawares. And…
Mysore/Mysuru: With Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, who also holds Finance portfolio, likely to present the State budget in the first week of March, Chamaraja MLA L. Nagendra met the CM at Bengaluru on Thursday and appealed him to make a budgetary allocation of a total of Rs.135 crore for re-construction of dilapidated Lansdowne and Devaraja…
Mysore/Mysuru: Urban Development Minister Byrathi Basavaraj has assured that fund allocation will be made in the forthcoming State Budget for the re-construction of Lansdowne and Devaraja Market buildings in the heart of the city. The Minister was replying to MLA L. Nagendra and former Mayor Ayub Khan, who had brought the matter to the notice…
By S.T. Ravikumar Mysore/Mysuru: Even nine years after tragedy struck the city’s over a century-old landmark Lansdowne Building located in the heart of the city in 2012, where four people were killed when a portion of the roof of the building collapsed following heavy rains, the MCC (Mysuru City Corporation), which has control over the…
By S.T. Ravikumar Mysore/Mysuru: There seems to be end in sight on the fate of over a century old Devaraja Market and Lansdowne buildings, which have turned decrepit over the passage of time and vagaries of nature. With no proper maintenance and repairs, these buildings are getting deteriorated with each passing day and questions are…
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