Mysore/Mysuru: With the State Government banning sale of Ganesha idols made of Plaster of Paris (PoP), the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Environment Officers conducted surprise raids on various shops to check for the sale of PoP idols. During the raids, the officers noticed two PoP idols at one of the shops located behind Uma Talkies…
Clean Mysuru Dasara-2025
August 21, 2025MCC Commr. chairs meeting of stake holders; appeals for maintaining cleanliness in city Mysore/Mysuru: With a month left for this year’s Dasara festival to begin on Sept. 22, Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Commissioner Shaikh Tanveer Asif chaired a meeting of stakeholders including civic groups, NGOs, Associations among others at MCC Zone-3 office at Sharadadevinagar here…
Rs. 10 crore push to make city pothole-free for Dasara
August 13, 2025Tender process begins; work orders to be issued soon: MCC Commissioner Mysore/Mysuru: With Dasara festivities just weeks away, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has set its sights on giving the city a much-needed facelift. MCC Commissioner Sheikh Tanveer Asif announced that a Rs. 10-crore project has been taken up to repair pothole-ridden roads and carry…
Mahadevapura Road needs urgent attention
August 10, 2025Sir, This is to bring to the urgent notice of both the elected representatives and the civic authorities of the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) and the Traffic Police Department the pathetic and dangerous state of Mahadevapura Road (also known as Azeez Sait Main Road for part of its stretch). The road has been neglected for…
Bio-medical waste mixing draws MCC warning
August 5, 2025Mysore/Mysuru: Expressing concern over the public tendency of mixing Bio and Medical wastes with other solid wastes, Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Commissioner Shaikh Tanveer Asif has warned that it will affect the health of the general public and also will have a disastrous bearing on the environment. He was speaking after chairing a meeting of…
MCC officials asked to adopt scientific waste management
August 2, 2025Mysore/Mysuru: Karnataka Upa Lokayukta Justice K.N. Phaneendra visited the sewage water treatment plant and the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) solid waste management plant at Kesare on Friday morning and inspected both facilities. Justice Phaneendra first visited the sewage water treatment plant, where he inspected the equipment, machinery, functioning and maintenance of the facility. Expressing satisfaction…
MCC’s ‘reuse’ promise ends up in the dustbin
August 2, 2025PET bottle recycling, cloth bag initiatives fizzle out as city drowns in plastic Mysore/Mysuru: Launched under the banner ‘Reuse for a Better Tomorrow,’ the Mysuru City Corporation’s (MCC) ambitious PET bottle recycling project promised to transform public participation in plastic waste management through incentives. But a year after its launch, the project has quietly faded…
Shops eat up Roads !
July 31, 2025Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru’s busiest stretches are increasingly turning unsafe as roadside vendor carts and makeshift stalls continue to occupy footpaths and even spill over onto roads, inconveniencing pedestrians, commuters and residents alike. The unchecked encroachment has worsened traffic movement and created hazardous conditions that have already claimed lives. The latest tragedy occurred last Thursday at Vivekananda…
Use of e-AASTHI software made mandatory at MCC
July 31, 2025Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Commissioner Shaikh Tanveer Asif has said that the use of e-AASTHI software has been made compulsory at MCC for the ease of creating property records and transfer of rights. At all the Zonal Offices of MCC, the timeline is set for the disposal of applications under the ‘first in, first…
Cleanest city only on paper… MCC worker dumps garbage in vacant sites
July 28, 2025Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru may have clinched third place in the Super Swachh League under Swachh Survekshan 2024-25 in the 3–10 lakh population category, but residents say the reality on the ground paints a very different picture. While the city basks in the glory of being listed among India’s cleanest, local residents are questioning the Mysuru City…














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