Mysuru: The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has clarified that there has been no lapses in the report submitted by it to the Union government for the inclusion of Mysuru under Smart City Mission. Reacting to an article titled “Smart City Mission – If there is a will there could still be a way” published in…
Complaint against woman for producing fake documents to claim job
July 5, 2017Mysuru: The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has lodged a complaint against a woman for producing fake documents to claim the job on compensatory grounds. A complaint in this regard has been lodged at K.R. Police Station. The complaint states, one Kariyamma, who was working as a Pourakarmika in the MCC passed away on Apr. 28, 2010…
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa statue to be installed at Ramakrishnanagar Circle
July 3, 2017Mysuru: Ramakrishnanagar Circle will soon be installed with the statue of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. The statue of Sri Paramahamsa, which is 15 tonne and 10 ft. tall, will be installed by Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) in a month. Arun Yogiraj, the city sculptor, who carved the recently-installed statute of Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar and yet to…
MCC evicts petty shops
July 3, 2017Mysuru: The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) personnel this morning conducted eviction drive in front Government PU College for Girls located on Chamaraja Double Road here. The eviction drive was taken up following complaints from the students to DC D. Randeep regarding them facing problems from people gathering in front of petty shops located adjacent to…
Dengue outbreak: Corporators demand proper waste segregation
July 1, 2017Mysuru: The rapid rise of vector-borne diseases in city over the last two months was elaborately discussed at the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Council meeting held yesterday at Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar Hall in the MCC premises. Corporators urged Mayor M.J. Ravikumar and MCC Commissioner G. Jagadeesha to take measures to ensure proper waste segregation and…
MCC to allot alternative lands for ‘Yele Thota’ farmers
June 30, 2017Mysuru: In a bid to make beetle leaf farmers undertake farming activities, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has decided to provide alternative lands to farmers of ‘Yele Thota’ whose lands were acquired by the then City Improvement Trust Board (CITB) in 1949 for the development of city. On Wednesday, a team of MCC officials, led…
Vandalism of Elephant Circle: MCC clarifies
June 29, 2017Mysuru: Following the publication of a letter titled ‘Elephant Circle vandalised yet again. Will City Corporation act?’ (Star of Mysore dated June 27) and KBG’s Point Blank titled ‘Vandalising iconic public sculptures, buildings etc.’ (SOM dated June 28), the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Public Relations Officer, in a press release, has clarified that the civic…
POINT BLANK: Vandalising iconic public sculptures, buildings etc.
June 28, 2017By K.B. Ganapathy, Editor-in-Chief Yesterday, Star of Mysore had published a letter in its Voice of the Reader column from a city tax-payer, with a sense of beauty and aesthetics, about the disfigurement of newly-constructed uniquely beautiful Elephant Circle by pasting posters on its pedestal (see pic). This morning while I was driving by the…
Herbaceous menace of parthenium
June 24, 2017Sir, Of late, many readers are writing about rampant growth of bushes, especially parthenium, in Mysuru. Mysuru has become like a shrub jungle with thick growth of this weed leading to severe breathing problems. I reside in Ramakrishnanagar I Block where the growth of this plant has covered all vacant sites — private or government….
Vani Vilas Water Works stinks !
June 23, 2017Mysuru: There is scare of dengue fever in city, though the Government is consistently denying it. The surrounding of houses should be kept clean without allowing water to stagnate. The Corporation officials and people’s representatives are trying to bring about awareness. However, it is surprising to see that under the very nose of the Mysuru…
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