Optical Fibre Cable laying work makes clean city roads treacherous to commute Yadavagiri Corporator holds Mayor, Commissioner responsible to restore damaged roads Mysuru: The Optical Fibre Cables (OFC) laying work across the city has left the roads in a bad shape with mounds of soil, sand and stones by the side, waiting for two-wheelers to…
Every third Sunday will be e-waste collection day
November 29, 2019Mysuru: From next month (December), every third Sunday will be e-waste (electronic waste) collection day. Mysuru City Corporation (MCC), along with NGOs and volunteers till now were collecting e-waste on 17th of every month. For this purpose, over 800 Pourakarmikas who have undergone training in collection and disposal of e-waste will be deputed to collect…
MCC on pothole filling-spree
November 20, 2019Mysuru: With rains relenting, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has begun filling up pothole-ridden roads across the city on a war footing. Works are on in all 65 wards where workers, armed with shovels, asphalt-mixed jelly stones in vehicles, are filling up knee-deep potholes which were waiting for victims, especially two-wheeler riders who find manoeuvring…
NAREDCO seminar focuses on making Mysuru a Smart City
November 20, 2019Urgent need to mop up revenues of Mysuru City Corporation underlined Mysuru: There is an urgent need to increase revenues of Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) to develop the Heritage City of Mysuru into a Smart City, said K. Sriram, National Vice-President of Builders Association of India (BAI). He was speaking at a seminar on ‘Smart…
Four tonnes banned plastic materials seized during raid
November 20, 2019Mysuru: The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) and Environment Officials, who raided R.B. Trading Co., a polypropylene bags manufacturing unit on C.V. Road in Bannimantap yesterday, have seized 106 polypropylene rolls from the factory. Acting on a tip off that the factory was manufacturing polypropylene bags, MCC Commissioner Gurudatta Hegde, Zone-7 Assistant Commissioner Geetha Huded, Health…
Ring of Darkness: Outer Ring Road lights turned off again
November 16, 2019Mysuru: Just a month after Dasara, streetlights along the six-lane Outer Ring Road (ORR) has been switched off. The 42-km-long carriageway has plunged into darkness again, endangering the safety of people using the motorway and residents of layouts beyond the road. Lights were switched on for Dasara following the intervention of Mysuru District Minister V….
Free breakfast for pourakarmikas
November 15, 2019Mysuru: Marking Kanakadasa Jayanti, the Mysuru City Corporation’s (MCC) ambitious plan to provide free breakfast to all it’s over 2400 pourakarmikas daily took off today with Mayor Pushpalatha Jagannath launching it near Madegowda Circle in Rajivnagar coming under Ward11, represented by her, at a function this morning, by having breakfast with the pourakarmikas. The launch…
Tale of missing grills and passing the buck
November 15, 2019Iron grills in front of Sri Jayachamaraja Wadiyar Circle stolen MCC Zone 9, 6 and 1 Development Officers shift responsibility Mysuru: Even as the Heritage City of Mysuru is celebrating the year-long Birth Centenary celebrations of the last ruler of Mysore, Sri Jayachamaraja Wadiyar with a host of memorable events commemorating the pro-people rule of…
Children create awareness against plastic through ‘Shramdaan’
November 14, 2019Mysuru: Children’s Day, commemorating the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister late Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, was celebrated in a meaningful way this morning with children from 500 schools in city creating awareness against plastic usage through ‘Shramdaan.’ The students picked up plastic waste littered around their schools which were later collected by garbage clearing vehicles…
Worms found in served food: Hotel fined Rs.30,000
November 14, 20192.5 tonnes banned plastic seized from Santhepet shop Mysuru: A hotel was fined Rs.30,000 by the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) after worms were found in the food they had served. Yesterday afternoon, MCC Zone 6 Commissioner Geetha went to Adyar Anand Bhavan (A2B) near City Railway Station and ordered food. After the food was supplied…
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