Mysuru: Does the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) have money to spend for this year’s Dasara? This question is bothering Mysureans as the festival dates are nearing and they are not seeing the annual and ritualistic colourful makeover of the city. They are only a witness to minor road works at some parts of the city. …
Mysuru: Though modern technologies are there to fill potholes, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) is still using primitive method —bricks and mud to cover gaping potholes. Following heavy and continuous rainfall in city, most of the roads are pothole-ridden. Instead of covering the potholes with jelly stones and then asphalting the area, the MCC workers…
Timeline of Town Hall Parking Project • Project begins on April 11, 2011 • Project deadline 2012 not met • Project delayed every year since 2012 • 2019, 8 years on, project still in limbo • Now, MCC wants to relaunch pending works, seeks Rs.5 crore Mysuru: Just 40 days for Naada Habba to begin…
Mysuru: One more ambitious project in city is the widening of the Irwin Road. This is another much delayed project caught in land acquisition and compensation tangles. Though the demolition of buildings for road widening again began today, the project is doubtful this Dasara. Irwin Road is one of the busiest roads and connects Sub-Urban…
Mysuru: Mayor Pushpalatha Jagannath on Sunday visited Ambale Annaiah Pandit Dharmashala, a girl students hostel on Chamaraja Double Road in city and inspected the admission register and the records of daily activities of the hostel. She also heard grievances of the hostel inmates. Speaking on the occasion, Mayor Pushpalatha Jagannath said that the girls hostel…
By Rajkumar Bhavasar Making Mysuru open-defecation-free has been a promise of sanitation drives for at least 15 years. But latest statistics suggest that taxpayers’ money spent through the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) to tackle this problem has by and large been flushed down the sewer. A majority of pay-and-use e-toilets in city are dysfunctional. Several…
Sandesh Swamy blames officers for the mess; writes to CM seeking stern action against them Mysuru: Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) is on the verge of bankruptcy, thanks to the lackadaisical attitude of officers, bemoaned former Mayor and BJP leader Sandesh Swamy. Addressing a press meet at his office in city recently, Sandesh Swamy recalled that…
More than 1,700 consumers pay water bills online since its launch on June 28 Bills can still be paid at 16 Vani Vilas Water Works Service Centres Mysuru: After years of procrastination, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) that has finally embraced technology, enabling water consumers to pay bills online, has got a shot in the…
Mysuru: Here is a machine that can sweep a road and neatly wash it, performing the work of over 70 Pourakarmikas. The machine has been imported from Italy and Mysuru will be the second city after Bhopal to possess such an advanced machine. In South India, Mysuru is the only city to have this machine. …
Mysuru: Mayor Pushpalatha Jagannath has said that the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) will extend all help for promotion of handicraft products. She was speaking at the programme organised by Karnataka State Handicraft Products Makers Association to felicitate craftsmen at the Institution of Engineers Hall on JLB Road here on Sunday last. Regretting that handicrafts had…
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