Mysore/Mysuru: With the Assembly elections barely a month away, sitting and aspiring MLAs are all set to put up illegal flex boards and banners on almost all roads and footpaths in the city. Many times, these banners are so big that they endanger the lives of vehicle users and pedestrians. As a pre-emptive measure, the…
By S.T. Ravikumar Mysore/Mysuru: Usually any meeting to discuss the finances of the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) attended by people’s representatives, citizens, NGOs and representatives of organisations turns into a platform for the participants to hit out at the officials for poor tax recovery and shoddy revenue generation. But belying the negativity, the MCC has…
By Maj. Gen. (Retd.) S.G. Vombatkere A voluntary group of citizens, under the banners of Parisara Balaga and Chamundi Betta Ulisi Samiti, has been working and agitating to protect, preserve and save the religious, environmental and heritage ambience of Chamundi Hill. They seek to especially protect the immediate surroundings of Chamundeshwari Temple and other temples,…
Mysore/Mysuru: In a swift action, the MCC authorities on Thursday stopped an unauthorised construction of a structure in Bogadi here. Some persons had begun preparations for laying the foundation stone for a structure at a plot behind Sridevi Nursing Home in Bogadi second stage, when locals alerted the MCC authorities. Upon coming to know of…
Mysore/Mysuru: MLA L. Nagendra distributed sewing machines to 30 poor women of SC/ST and other communities who were chosen as beneficiaries under Mysuru City Corporation’s 24:10 and 7.25 scheme grants, at a function held at Manjunathapura community hall here recently. Speaking after distributing the machines, MLA Nagendra said that like any other areas of the…
Systematic letting out of sewage into lakes and unbridled construction atop Chamundi Hill highlighted Mysore/Mysuru: City’s worsening garbage and waste disposal mechanism, pollution of lakes, construction of structures inside public parks by the Mysuru City Corporation, dilapidated heritage structures that are further neglected by the State Government, garbage atop Chamundi Hill. These were a few…
Mysore/Mysuru: Claiming that Mayor Shivakumar had run away from meetings to elect the Heads of MCC Standing Committees, which posts are vacant for months, former Mayor and senior Congress leader Ayub Khan alleged that rampant corruption was taking place in the last 7-8 months under BJP rule in the absence of Standing Committees’ Chairmen. Addressing…
Mysore/Mysuru: Two-and-a-half-years after the foundation stone was laid for the hi-tech heritage-style toilet, the facility was inaugurated this morning. The toilet has been built in the Town Hall (Rangacharlu Memorial Hall) premises facing Gandhi Square, the first of its kind in the city. The Mysuru City Corporation collaborated with the Namma Mysuru Foundation (NMF) to…
Mysore/Mysuru: The election of the Chairpersons to the various Standing Committees of the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has been repeatedly postponed and even the last MCC Council meeting that was supposed to be held on Monday (Mar. 13) was put off though a notification was issued. The meeting was postponed as Mayor Shivakumar did not…
Mysore/Mysuru: The polls to elect the Chairmen of Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Standing Committees was postponed for the fifth time in the current Mayor’s term on Monday as the Mayor and BJP Corporators stayed away. The previous meeting, the fourth one scheduled on Feb. 2, too was postponed as the Mayor and BJP Corporators had…
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