Mysore/Mysuru: The activists of CPI (M) staged a protest in front of Mysuru City Corporation Office yesterday demanding the withdrawal of the proposed pay and park initiative. ‘Mysuru is a prominent tourist centre and thousands visit the city everyday. In addition, many people from neighbouring districts and States too visit the city to avail medical…
‘Pay and Park’ tender put on hold: Mayor
June 13, 2023MCC to convene meeting of businessmen, stakeholders Mysore/Mysuru: Following intense public criticism and protest meetings resenting the pay and park system on six roads approved by Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Council, the tender process is put on hold. Mayor Shivakumar told Star of Mysore this morning that tenders to implement a systematic pay and park…
Issue parking passes for shop owners on Urs Road: Lingappa
June 13, 2023MCC overstaffed and must downsize its workforce, to save on salaries, says former Mayor Mysore/Mysuru: Former Mayor R. Lingappa has expressed his opposition to the decision of the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) to reintroduce the pay and park system. In a press release, Lingappa stated that the people are already burdened with increased Property Tax,…
Memories of Makkaji Chowk: 18 years ago (2005) in Star of Mysore
June 12, 2023Mod shopping mall for city under scan By K.B. Ganapathy The Mysore City Corporation with 65 members in its Council passed a very important resolution last month on 10.10.2005 on the subject No. 164, with financial implications running into more than many crores of rupees every year. The resolution pertains to the proposed commercial complex…
MCC’s ‘Pay and Park’ proposal meets with stiff resistance
June 12, 2023Devaraja Mohalla residents stage protest; Mysuru Rakshana Vedike to approach Court Mysore/Mysuru: The pay and park system approved and re-floated by the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Council has kicked up a row again and this time, voluntary organisations and residents have joined hands to oppose the move. They decried the MCC move to re-introduce the…
MLA must instruct MCC to be people-friendly: Residents
June 12, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: A group of residents from Devaraja Mohalla staged a protest yesterday condemning the MCC’s pay and park proposal on city roads. Terming the decision ‘unscientific’, the residents staged a demonstration on D. Devaraj Urs Road. Former Corporator Nagabhushan said that the MCC has decided on the proposal in a hurried manner without taking the…
MCC’s ‘Pay and Park’ system
June 12, 2023Shoppers protest; No way to ease pressure on parking space The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Council with 65 Corporators whom we unfortunately call as City Fathers have taken a decision on June 9, 2023 to introduce a ‘Pay and Park’ system on six important roads of the business hubs of our city in downtown area…
Echo of barricade removal on Makkaji Chowk Road: MCC and private firm move Court; petition quashed
June 11, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: Following the eviction of barricades and fencing on the road from Gandhi Square to Sayyaji Rao Road via Olympia Theatre in Mysuru as per the directive of the Court, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) and Maverick Holdings and Investment Pvt. Ltd. approached the Mysuru District Court. However, the Judge quashed the petition. It may…
Hike in water tariff deferred
June 11, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has kept the proposal on hiking the drinking water tariff pending, while it has been decided to regularise illegal water connections in the city. The subject on revising drinking water tariff that was listed for discussion in the General Council meeting on Friday was postponed, but was resolved to regularise…
Parking: To Pay or not to Pay!
June 11, 2023By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD It was heartening to read in yesterday’s Star of Mysore the good news that after more than a decade of dilly-dallying, our City Corporation is going to introduce the ‘Pay and Park’ system on some of our city roads, very soon. But, how soon this is going to happen,…
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