Mysore/Mysuru: Following the recent dismissal by the Karnataka High Court of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition expressing concerns about the Mysuru City Corporation’s (MCC) plan to demolish and reconstruct the 137-year-old Devaraja Market due to its deteriorated condition and to replace it with a new building, the Mysuru Grahakara Parishat (MGP) convened a monthly…
‘Why are we unable to give an IT-based voter list using Aadhaar, Artificial Intelligence?’ Mysore/Mysuru: The right to vote is an important prerogative of a citizen in a democracy and shockingly it has been found that hundreds of names went missing from the voters list in Mysuru and as a result, they were declared ineligible…
MGP holds interaction on ‘Lakes in Mysuru’ Mysore/Mysuru: The city of Mysuru has always been known to be among the greener and better planned cities of India. The greenery and water bodies surrounding the city have always been subject of research and also conservation. But of late, the number of water bodies in and around…
Delayed Decision will be Disastrous By R. Chandra Prakash My stint with Mysore Grahakara Parishat (MGP), particularly between 2013-2016, provided me with opportunities to study civic issues of the city. That period also happened to be the period of dialogue on Mysore Master Plan-2031, with Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) and Mysuru City Corporation (MCC). …
How many more such violations in our city? By Bhamy V. Shenoy and S. Shobana Mysuru Grahakara Parishat (MGP) has been fighting against violation of Karnataka Parks Act, 1985 ever since its inception. Most visible protests have involved Cheluvamba Park (where it succeeded in demolishing 50 percent of the building to comply with the law),…
Mysore: Drinking water woes in may parts of the city was the main issue at the Mysuru Grahakara Parishat’s (MGP) monthly meeting held at the Parishat’s office in Yadavagiri on Sunday. MGP Member Mansoor Ahmed, who was among the first speakers at the meeting, said that Siddique Nagar used to get water from borewell and…
Mysuru: The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) surprisingly and sadly does not have the blueprint of the drinking water pipeline laid out in various extensions of the city including the heart of the city, revealed Vani Vilas Water Works (VVWW) Assistant Executive Engineer (East) Vinay Kumar, Junior Executive Engineer Girish (South) and Muddu Mallegowda. They were…
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