Projects worth Rs. 695.6 crore; MUDA: Rs. 377.6 crore; MCC: Rs. 200 crore; PWD: Rs. 118 crore By S.T. Ravikumar Mysore/Mysuru: The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has begun repairing important roads across the city that are distributed across the Assembly Constituencies of Chamaraja, Krishnaraja and Chamundeshwari amidst the thick of elections. Asphalting machines are rumbling…
Mysore/Mysuru: Following a public outcry over slipshod asphalting works on the D. Devaraj Urs Road in the heart of the city and the subsequent action by the Public Works Department (PWD) asking the contractor to re-asphalt the road as per the set standards, the road works have been re-initiated now and are likely to be…
Re-asphalting perfectly good road costs tax-payers money Mysore/Mysuru: The grand plans to develop the 850-metre stretch of D. Devaraja Urs Road in the heart of Mysuru city to resemble the Brigade Road in Bengaluru has run into rough weather with the contractor executing sub-standard works. The contractor has not undertaken the asphalting works in a…
Mysuru, Apr. 8 (RK&BCT)- The Mysuru City Corporation’s (MCC) move to open tax collection cash counters at all its nine Zonal Offices on a holiday yesterday (Good Friday) and today (second Saturday) has paid rich dividends with Rs. 1.95 crore collection on the first day. Today too, the counters will be open so that people…
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…
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