MCC aims to link 10,000 voters in each Ward during the day Booth Level Officers go door-to-door Initiative aims to curb electoral fraud, avoid voter duplication Mysore/Mysuru: A day-long special drive for linking Aadhaar card with Voter ID card of citizens began this morning across the city. The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) is carrying out…
Ganesha Festival: MCC’s appeal to idol-makers, sellers and citizens
August 26, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: As an eco-friendly measure, MCC Commissioner G. Lakshmikantha Reddy has appealed the citizens to worship only eco-friendly clay Ganesha idols. In a press release, the Commissioner said that use of chemical paints, thermocol and Plaster of Paris in the making of Ganesha idols has been completely banned. Warning against use of banned articles in…
Mayoral polls on Sept. 6
August 26, 2022Activities begin in all three major political parties Mysore/Mysuru: A day after the Government announced the reservation category for Mayor posts concerning MCC and nine other City Corporations across the State for the next term of the current tenure, the Mayoral poll process has been set in motion with the authorities announcing that the Mysuru…
Irresponsible citizens turning Cleanest City into a garbage dumping yard
August 26, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru which had bagged the ‘Cleanest City in India’ tag twice seem to be clueless about handling garbage menace. While civic workers are doing their best to keep the city clean and tidy, irresponsible people are discarding garbage all around the city making the efforts civic workers go waste. Heaps of garbage can be…
A pothole-ridden grand Dasara 2022 !
August 25, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: The official machinery, the elected representatives and various Sub-Committees are leaving no stone unturned to celebrate this Dasara in a grand manner after a gap of 2 years. But in their enthusiasm to attract more and more tourists, they are ignoring one crucial aspect of the city infrastructure — pothole-filled roads. As the 2020…
Mysuru Mayoral polls: Reservation announced
August 24, 2022General category candidate for Mayor, BCA (Woman) for Deputy Mysore/Mysuru: Exactly six months after the incumbent Mayor Sunanda Palanetra functioned as In-charge Mayor of Mysuru, the State Government has announced the reservation category (matrix) for Mayoral polls, thus setting in motion the process for conduct of Mayoral elections for the next term of the current…
MCC cracks down on PoP Ganesha idol-makers
August 19, 2022Teams conduct surprise checks; seize environmentally harmful idols Mysore/Mysuru: The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) wants Ganesha idol-makers to refrain from making Plaster of Paris (PoP) idols for the festival and has tightened its noose on the use of PoP. But artisans continue to make big Ganesha idols using PoP and chemical colours unmindful of the…
Come Dasara, Town Hall parking lot thrown open …but closes after Nada Habba ends as practised since 2018
August 17, 2022Additional ramp being built; project cost escalates from Rs. 10.86 crore to Rs. 23.28 crore Mysore/Mysuru: The Town Hall parking facility in the heart of the city is turning out to be Hamlet’s Ghost of our time as it is only during Dasara that the people in power think of the parking facility as Hamlet’s…
Finally, Irwin Road widening begins
August 16, 2022MLA, MCC Commissioner visit spot; road works to be completed in a couple of days Mysore/Mysuru: After years of stalemate, the widening of Irwin Road began this morning and as the first stage of the works, the drain pipeline laying works have begun. Once the pipes are laid, they will be connected to the main…
Drenched in Tricolour
August 16, 2022The South Western Railway and Mysuru City Corporation buildings in city were illuminated with tricolour on the occasion of 75 years of Indian Independence being celebrated as Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav. Also, the buildings of CSRI-CFTRI and City Railway Station were among other buildings that were illuminated in tricolour on the occasion.














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