Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has launched an unique scheme of empowering top scoring girl students in SSLC and II PUC exams of Government Schools and Colleges in its limits by providing a financial assistance of Rs. 50,000 under Jnanasiri scheme. The MCC in its recent budget had announced the launch of Jnanasiri scheme, where…
Fencing on Makkaji Chowk road cleared; open for movement
June 8, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: The barricades and fencing laid by the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) on the road from Gandhi Square to Sayyaji Rao Road via Olympia Theatre have been cleared this morning, following a High Court order. The fencing on Makkaji Chowk Road was removed in the presence of Court Ameen (Bailiff) M.H. Nagaraj. It is a…
Rabid dog keeps postal staff on tenterhooks
June 8, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: A rabid dog kept the staff of Post Office in Jayalakshmipuram in the city waiting for two hours to resume their duty, with anxiety writ large on their faces yesterday. It was only after the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) personnel caught hold of the canine, that the postal staff heaved a sigh of relief…
Stray woes spark heated debate at MCC post-Budget meeting
June 6, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: Mayor Shivakumar has instructed Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Officers to ensure that stray cattle do not create trouble on the roads in the city. Following the tabling of Budget of MCC for the year 2023-24 at Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar Council Hall, there was a serious discussion on the menace of stray dogs and stray…
MCC Budget evokes mixed reaction
June 6, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Budget for the year 2023-24 has evoked a mixed reaction from Legislators & Corporators alike. Former Mayor and sitting Corporator Ayub Khan, who made a mockery of convening the Budget meeting, ignoring the normal procedure of calling the meeting in March, said: “There was no mention of Unduwadi Drinking Water…
MCC presents surplus Budget; No new taxes
June 5, 2023Integrated Command and Control Centre to take strategic decisions on solid waste management Mysore/Mysuru: The Mysuru City Corporation‘s Budget for the year 2023-2024 presented this morning had nothing new to offer to the residents of Mysuru though the civic body has allocated funds for regular development projects. Some of the projects that were proposed in…
Concrete blocks around trees uprooting city’s green cover
June 5, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: The Mysuru City Corporation’s (MCC) construction of concrete blocks and laying of interlock tiles around trees are weakening the roots and eventually killing trees, according to experts and environmental lovers. Mysuru, known for its dense green cover is losing it rapidly. According to ecologists, hundreds of trees which had weathered many storms fell because…
Water tax revenue doubled after weeding out illegalities: MCC Commissioner
June 4, 2023Centre’s Jal Jeevan Mission to be implemented in district by next year: MP PratapSimha Mysore/Mysuru: Commissioner G. Lakshmikantha Reddy said that the MCC’s annual water tax collection rose to more than Rs. 93 crore last year from an average Rs. 48 crore the previous years, after illegal water connections were detected and all the connections…
MCC launches ‘My Life, My Clean City’ mission
June 2, 2023Aims to implement three ‘R’s of waste management — Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Mysore/Mysuru: The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has initiated the ‘My Life, My Clean City’ mission where the civic body will set up dedicated counters at various places, in which people will leave household items and furniture which no more are in their use…
MCC gets 15 e-auto tippers for garbage collection
June 1, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has got 15 e-auto tippers (EVs) worth Rs. 80 lakh for daily garbage collection from door-to-door in all the 65 wards of the city. ICICI Foundation under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative handed over the tippers to Mayor Shivakumar, in the premises of MCC main office on Sayyaji Rao…
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