Mysuru: With rains relenting, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has begun filling up pothole-ridden roads across the city on a war footing. Works are on in all 65 wards where workers, armed with shovels, asphalt-mixed jelly stones in vehicles, are filling up knee-deep potholes which were waiting for victims, especially two-wheeler riders who find manoeuvring…
Potholes, defunct streetlights need urgent repairs
September 8, 2019Corporators urge at MCC Council meeting Mysuru: People’s festival, Dasara, is fast approaching and tourists will be arriving in large numbers. But the pathetic conditions of the roads full of potholes and the defunct street lights plunging the city into darkness are something that needs urgent attention. Otherwise, celebrate Dasara in darkness… This was the…
Hotch-potch patch work to fill potholes
September 18, 2018Mysuru: With just 22 days remaining for Naada Habba Dasara festivities to begin, hectic last minute preparations are on to ensure that the celebrations are memorable. In the midst of preparations for the annual festival, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) took up the ashphalting, pothole-filling and beautification works on Raja Marga route, besides the key…
‘Selfie with Pothole’ campaign launched
October 28, 2017Mysuru: A ‘Selfie with Pothole’ Abhiyan to draw the attention of the elected representatives was launched near JSS Hospital by Mysore Rakshana Vedike activists yesterday. The city is covered with potholes following heavy rains since the last two months. Added to this, substandard road works have been carried out. The officials have not come forward…
‘Gundi Bhagya’ bestowed upon city: A novel protest on potholed roads
October 27, 2017Mysuru: With scores of potholes left unattended in city inviting accidents, about 50 BJP members of K.R. Constituency led by former Minister S.A. Ramdas staged a novel protest in Vidyaranyapuram here this morning by filling the pot-holes themselves assisted by about ten workers. Potholes on 400 metre stretch of Sarvajanika Hostel Road from Andani Circle…
Pothole-ridden city roads wait for victims
October 24, 2017Mysuru: This is one question that is bothering people of Mysuru: “Is Mysuru going the Bengaluru way?” The question when posed to a few residents of the Heritage City did evoke a response with a sigh. The reason is because of the concern shown by the people all over the country regarding Bengaluru and its…
Mysuru Artist Badal highlights Bengaluru’s potholed roads
October 14, 2017Mysuru/ Bengaluru: City’s well-known artist Badal Nanjundaswamy is an artist with a difference. He has now made Bengaluru his home. He attracts attention to the woes of the people through his innovative ideas. Bengaluru, which was once called the Garden City, has now become the Garbage City and of late, is also called the Potholed…
Bike rider injured while avoiding crater
September 16, 2017Residents stage snap stir Mysuru: Residents of Ramakrishnanagar resorted to a snap stir on the stretch of Vishwamanava Double Road connecting Ramakrishnanagar Circle and Ring Road here last evening urging the civic authorities to fill up the potholes and craters formed on the stretch of road, worsened further by the recent rains. The agitation was…
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