Meat, weighing machines seized; Meat sold at Rs. 800 per kg at city outskirts Mysuru/Mysore: Officials of Mysuru City Corporation (MCC), led by the Health Officer, on Sunday conducted raid on a meat shop that was open despite closure orders and seized the meat and weighing machine besides locking it. Following Coronavirus scare, the District…
Unhygienic fast food outlets asked to shut down
March 20, 2020Mysuru/Mysore: As a preventive measure to stop the spread of Coronavirus and Avian Influenza (Bird Flu), the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has ordered shut down of all unhygienic fast food outlets in the city with immediate effect. However, fast food outlets that have prioritised hygiene, have been exempted from the order. Following the order, MCC…
Avian Flu: Mass culling of birds begins
March 17, 2020Government to pay Rs.90 per bird as compensation to Poultry owners Mysuru/Mysore: With Mysuru District Deputy Commissioner Abhiram G. Sankar on Monday ordering culling of birds in 10-km radius of the spot at Kumbarakoppal where a few birds were found dead recently and Lab reports confirming that two of the dead birds had died of…
Sale of masks, sanitizers at exorbitant prices: Four medical stores fined Rs. 20,000
March 15, 2020Mysuru/Mysore: Drug Controllers have imposed a fine of Rs. 20,000 on four medical stores which were selling masks and sanitizers above the Maximum Retail Price (MRP) and cases have been registered against the owners of the four medical stores yesterday. A team of officials, who inspected 20 medical stores in city found four medical stores…
MCC Health Panel inspects medical stores, checks masks
March 11, 2020Mysuru/Mysore: Following complaints from the public that a few medical stores were selling masks at exorbitant prices, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Standing Committee on Health, led by its President Gopi, visited a few medical stores on Dhanvantri Road this morning and conducted an inspection. The Committee members checked the masks and collected information pertaining…
Bringing R.K. Narayan’s Swami back to Life
March 6, 2020Bronze statues of three characters in ‘Swami and Friends’ to be installed at Yadavagiri Circle Mysuru/Mysore: The famed novelist R.K. Narayan’s iconic ‘Swami and Friends’ of ‘Malgudi Days’-fame will come alive at the popular Joy Ice-cream Circle in Yadavagiri. The bronze statuary will be installed at the sprawling Circle where five roads meet and which…
Mayor launches online Building Plan approval system
March 4, 2020Visit www.mrc.gov.in for online approvals Mysore/Mysuru: From today, all building approval plans will be online and the process of physical verification, manual plan approval application, payment of fees will be a thing of the past. The new hassle-free online Land and Building Plan Approval System (LBPAS) for building plan sanction and land use change where…
After a long delay, MCC to allot land for Yelethota farmers
February 28, 2020Civic body issues notification; asks beneficiaries to re-submit documents Mysuru/Mysore: In a bid to make betel leaf farmers undertake farming activities, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has decided to provide alternative lands to farmers of ‘Yelethota’ whose lands were acquired by the then City Improvement Trust Board (CITB) in 1949 for the development of city….
House, Building Plans to be approved online
February 26, 2020MCC, MUDA, District Departments to come under hassle-free online Land & Building Plan Approval System Mysore/Mysuru: Almost a year after taking a new step towards implementing an online system of land, building and layout plan approvals, land use change and other related permissions, the State Government is in the process of implementing the system and…
MCC Ward 18 bypolls on Feb. 9: Campaigning picks up momentum
February 4, 2020Voting from 7 am to 5 pm at 11 booths; Counting on Feb. 11 Mysuru/Mysore: With the bypolls for MCC Ward 18 (Yadavagiri) just five days away (Feb.9), the public campaigning by the three major political parties — BJP, Congress and JD(S) — has picked up momentum. The BJP has fielded B.V. Ravindra while the…
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