Deputy Mayor Anwar Baig and team visit BBMP to learn about the initiative to collect tax from revenue property owners Mysore/Mysuru: The cash-strapped Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) is looking to mop up its revenues and has plans to bring areas beyond the Corporation limits into its Property Tax net, considering the fact that the city…
Robotic scavenger Bandicoot claws its way to clean sewers
December 19, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: One of the biggest problems in cities is the profession of manual scavenging. Although laws have been made to stop the practice, human scavengers are forced to enter and clean the manholes with their hands even today, a major reason being a lack of proper technological solutions to take their place. The Mysuru City…
Over 9 years after tragedy, the fate of Lansdowne building still remains in suspense
December 17, 2021By S.T. Ravikumar Mysore/Mysuru: Even nine years after tragedy struck the city’s over a century-old landmark Lansdowne Building located in the heart of the city in 2012, where four people were killed when a portion of the roof of the building collapsed following heavy rains, the MCC (Mysuru City Corporation), which has control over the…
No end in sight on fate of Devaraja Market
December 16, 2021By S.T. Ravikumar Mysore/Mysuru: There seems to be end in sight on the fate of over a century old Devaraja Market and Lansdowne buildings, which have turned decrepit over the passage of time and vagaries of nature. With no proper maintenance and repairs, these buildings are getting deteriorated with each passing day and questions are…
‘Shaktiman’ multipurpose hydraulic vehicle of MCC lying idle
December 15, 2021Why waste tax-payers’ money on purchasing equipment when it cannot be maintained, ask the public Mysore/Mysuru: ‘Shaktiman,’ the multipurpose hydraulic vehicle of Mysuru City Corporation (MCC), which was being used to cut dry trees and branches and also to prune dry branches of trees, is now lying idle and gathering dust in the MCC due…
Will these damaged name boards in Siddarthanagar be replaced?
December 13, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Most of the name boards with messages of great people, that are named for roads in Siddarthanagar have been damaged and fallen down. It was Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) that named the roads and installed the name boards after forming the area initially and later handed it over to the Mysuru City Corporation…
Hardinge Circle UGD work has a gaping hole
December 12, 2021Damaged pipeline not found despite digging 17 feet Mysore/Mysuru: The Underground Drainage (UGD) works taken up by Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) near the ever-busy Hardinge Circle is causing a lot of inconvenience to motorists and pedestrians, who will have to wait for five more days for the works to be completed. The works have been…
After MCC fails to respond, K.C. Layout residents take up cleaning drive
December 5, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: After waiting for the MCC to take up cleaning of K.C. Layout in MCC Ward No. 52, which eventually did not happen, the residents of the locality under Kempu Cheluvajammanni Residents Welfare Association have taken up the cleaning of the area themselves yesterday and today. Though K.C. Layout, located near Lalitha Mahal helipad at…
Court cases hold up 60 mts work on Irwin Road
December 2, 2021Two property owners approach High Court against demolition move We are ready to complete road widening work but our hands are tied: MCC Mysore/Mysuru: Only two properties extending up to 60 metres have to be demolished to realise the full benefits of a widened and a beautified Irwin Road. The Mysuru City Corporation has not…
Calling SC, ST and Pourakarmikas to avail benefits from MCC
November 29, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: MCC has invited applications from eligible SC, ST and Pourakarmikas under the Mahatma Gandhi Nagara Vikasa Yojana (MGNVY) for implementation of Individual Welfare Programmes in Chamaraja, Chamundeshwari, Krishnaraja and Narasimharaja Constituencies. The SC and ST communities will get financial assistance for purchase of Sites, Pucca Housing Scheme (Pucca Ghar Yojana), Self employment and Laptop…
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