Mysuru/Mysore: A seven-member Direct Observation Team (independent assessors) has arrived in the city and has started their survey to rank Mysuru among cities that are cleanest. The exercise is part of Swachh Survekshan 2020 initiated by the Union Urban Development Ministry. The team has already begun surveying different parts of the city and is collecting…
Authorities go all out to top Swachh Survekshan this year
January 19, 2020Mysuru: Having to be satisfied with the best ‘Cleanest Medium City’ award last year, Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) is making all efforts to see that it regains the top spot this time. In an effort to encourage large-scale citizen participation, MCC, in association with Let’s Do It Mysore! (an NGO) conducted a volunteers meeting at…
Banned plastic seized during MCC raid; Shop fined Rs. 10,000
January 19, 2020Mysuru: The officials of Mysuru City Corporation (MCC), who conducted raids on shops stocking banned plastic items at Shivarampet, have seized 10 kg of banned plastic from a shop and imposed a fine of Rs. 10,000 on the owner. The shop that was raided is Mahendra Enterprises near Dufferin Clock Tower in city. The MCC…
Tasneem of JD(S) is Mayor
January 18, 2020C. Sridhar of Congress Deputy Mayor Mysuru/Mysore: The city got its youngest Mayor when 31-year-old Tasneem of JD(S) was elected as the city’s First Citizen (Mayor) in the Mayoral election held at the MCC’s Council Hall this morning. Tasneem is the thirty-third elected Mayor. Tasneem represents Ward 22 (Meena Bazar) in the 65-member civic body….
Devaraja Market Demolition Court gives clearance
January 13, 2020Mysuru/Mysore: The Court has given clearance to Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) to demolish and rebuild the heritage Devaraja Market and Lansdowne Building. Disclosing this to the media recently, MCC Commissioner Gurudatta Hegde said that the traders of Devaraja Market had moved the Court against the proposed demolition but the Court has instructed MCC to provide…
Swachh Survekshan: MCC grooms students and organisations
January 13, 2020Mysuru/Mysore: With Swachh Survekshan Survey to adjudge the cleanest city in the country having begun from Jan.4 and to go on till Jan.31, Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) in association with Red Cross Society had organised an awareness programme in that context at Town Hall here this morning. About 250 students of various colleges and representatives…
CABLE CRACKDOWN
January 11, 2020MCC stops cable laying works after biker falls into pit in Yadavagiri Mysuru/Mysore: The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) had to wait for a victim to fall inside a gaping pit to crack the whip on Optical Fibre Cable laying firms who were digging up the roads in a slipshod manner, violating the conditions laid down…
90-kg banned plastic seized, owner fined
January 11, 2020Mysuru/Mysore: Team of Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) officials, lead by Assistant Commissioner Geetha Hudeda and Environment Engineer S. Mythri, along with Abhaya team members, raided Raj Tradings shop in Shivarampet here yesterday and have seized about 90-kg of banned plastic covers and carry bags from the shop and imposed a penalty of Rs.10,000 on the…
Roadside garbage bins stolen
January 8, 2020Mysuru: Some roadside garbage bins that have been installed by the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) have been stolen by miscreants. The MCC had installed two bins (one for dry waste and another for wet waste) by hanging them onto iron stands installed on various roads including D. Devaraj Urs Road and Sayyaji Rao Road in…
Mysuru Mayoral election on Jan.18: Lobbying begins
January 7, 2020Mysuru/Mysore: After a two-month delay, the Mayoral election for the second term of the current tenure of the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has been scheduled to take place on Jan.18. The Government had announced the reservation matrix for Mayoral polls in December last, according to which the Mayor post is reserved for Backward Class-A (BCA)-…
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