Mysore/Mysuru: With just two days to go for voting (Feb.9), public campaigning for MCC ward 18 (Yadavagiri) drew to a close at 7 am today. The by-poll was necessitated after BJP Corporator from the Ward Guru Vinayak was disqualified over fake caste certificate row. The MCC Ward 18 is reserved for ST Category. The BJP…
Tax fraud: Bank employee, property owner, two brokers in the dock
February 6, 2020Complaint filed in Metagalli Police Station on Jan. 6; Police yet to register FIR Mysore/Mysuru: A major tax evasion racket has come to light where the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has been cheated under Self Assessment Scheme (SAS) by paying less tax after creating fake documents. A complaint has been registered against four persons at…
Irwin Road pending works to begin from March 1
February 6, 2020MCC to write to Police seeking a ban on vehicular movement on the busy stretch for four months Mysore/Mysuru: The pending works on demolishing buildings (Nehru Circle till Government Ayurveda College) and widening of the entire Irwin Road will be taken up from March 1 and the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) will write to the…
Brokers rule the roost in MCC, MUDA offices
February 6, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) and Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) officials often wax eloquent on maintaining transparency in their functioning. But the ground reality is different as brokers and middlemen dominate in the two important Government bodies and many people are forced to approach the brokers, thanks to the nonchalant attitude of officials. Citizens…
Breakfast scheme for Pourakarmikas scrapped
February 1, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: The much-hyped ‘Upahara Bhagya’ (breakfast scheme) mooted and implemented by the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) to provide breakfast to over 2,400 Pourakarmikas engaged in cleaning work has hit a roadblock. The Council has decided to cancel the tender of the breakfast scheme and a decision to this effect was taken in the monthly meeting…
Elected to various MCC Committees
February 1, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: The following Corporators have been elected unanimously to various MCC Committees at the MCC Council Meeting held recently. Sri Rangacharlu Memorial Town Hall Committee: Sharath Kumar, M.C. Ramesh, Usha, M. Shivakumar, R. Nagaraju, Mohammed Rafi and Sawood Khan. Ambale Annaiah Pandit’s Free Students Hostel (Poor Students Feeding Committee): M.V. Ramprasad, M.S. Shobha, Lokesh, Shanthamma…
MCC razes illegal house on Govt. land at Giriyabovipalya
February 1, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Continuing its drive against unauthorised constructions on Government lands, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) razed down a house built illegally on a Government land at Giriyabovipalya here on Friday. Following complaints that over 20 unauthorised houses had come up in about one acre area near Giriyabovipalya lake, the MCC officials, led by Assistant Commissioner…
Garbage crisis in Mysuru: Are we concerned ?
January 31, 2020By Bhamy V. Shenoy If one wants to appreciate the meaning of “Nero fiddling while Rome was burning”, just look at the way how our Corporators left the Council Hall recently fuming at the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Commissioner who could not give them the “promised” Rs. 50 lakh for each Ward. Residents of Vidyaranyapuram…
Heap of empty plastic bottles poses traffic bottleneck
January 28, 2020Mysuru: Even as the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) is working towards making the city plastic-free, a heap of empty plastic bottles that fell from a moving Goods auto near the RMC Market junction on New Sayyaji Rao Road posed a lot of inconvenience to motorists travelling on the road here recently. Eye witnesses said that the…
‘Ward Engineer can be fined up to Rs. 1 lakh for building plan violation’
January 24, 2020MCC Deputy Commissioner Shivananda Murthy speaks at NAREDCO workshop on RERA Mysore/Mysuru: ‘Apart from levying penalty on property owners who have violations in their buildings- differences between the Approved Plan and the Completion Report (CR) -there is a provision of imposing a fine of up to Rs. 1 lakh on the respective Ward Engineers,’ said…
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