Mysore/Mysuru: With the Government on July 14 issuing an order deleting 354.29 ½ acres of land coming under Kurubarahalli Survey No.4 and Alanahalli Survey No.41, on which land the MUDA (formerly CITB) had formed Siddartha, JC and KC Layouts, from B-Kharab classification (Government land), Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha has thanked Chief Minister B.S.Yediyurappa and Revenue…
Third Ashada Friday: VIPs, devotees throng Hill Temple
July 10, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Despite a ban on devotees to Sri Chamundeshwari Temple atop Chamundi Hill on all Ashada Fridays, VIPs and a few devotees were present inside the Hill Temple this morning for darshan on the third Ashada Friday which was celebrated in a simple manner. Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister K.S. Eshwarappa led the netas…
MP hands over cleaning vehicle to MCC
July 9, 2020The vehicle was donated by IOC through its CSR initiative Mysore/Mysuru: As part of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) handed over a goods vehicle fitted with jetting, rodding and de-silting machine to Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha at the MP’s Office in Jaladarshini Guest House premises this morning. This is the first…
Youth’s body brought home from Malaysia seven months after death
July 8, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Seven months after he drowned in a lake in Malaysia, the body of Sumanth, a native of Periyapatna, was brought to his village yesterday and the last rites were performed by tearful relatives. The family had lost a young breadwinner who had gone to Malaysia to earn a living. Sumanth (22) died on December…
MCC Works Committee members deny MP’s allegations of extortion
July 7, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Strongly denying MP Pratap Simha’s allegation that MCC Works Committee members were extorting money from people constructing buildings and the contractors engaged in laying of underground power cable works, at a meeting chaired by the District in-Charge Minister at Regional Commissioner’s office recently, the MCC has strongly condemned the MP’s remarks terming it as…
District Minister holds progress review meeting of ‘Nagara Vikasa Yojana’
July 2, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: District Minister S.T. Somashekar held a progress review meeting of the projects and schemes undertaken in the city under the Centre’s Mahatma Gandhi Nagara Vikasa Yojana (MGNVY), at the Regional Commissioner’s office here on Wednesday. Soon after the meeting began, MCC Commissioner Gurudatta Hegde apprised the Minister that the Centre released Rs.150 crore under…
Stalled works of Chamundi Hill shopping outlets to begin soon
July 2, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: The stalled works of constructing shopping outlets due to paucity of funds atop Chamundi Hill will begin soon and funds will be infused into the project, said Mysuru District Minister S.T. Somashekar. He was addressing officers and media atop the Hill last evening where he had been to inspect pending works. During the Minister’s…
Plant fruit and flower saplings in Parks, Highways: MP
June 26, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Stating that nurturing is more important than the number in the planting of saplings, Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha said that the Forest Department officials should concentrate more on saving our ecology and environment by planting of fruit-bearing and flowering plants in Parks and also along the Highways and other roads. He was presiding over…
Speed up works on Bantwal-Bengaluru National Highway 275: MP urges Centre
June 11, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha has urged the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to expedite the two road works on Bantwal-Bengaluru National Highway 275 that passes through Mysuru and Kodagu. The MP has apprised I.K. Pandey, Director General (Road Development) and Special Secretary to Government of India (Ministry of Road Transport and Highways) that…
Newly built 463 houses handed over to flood victims of 2018 in Kodagu
June 5, 2020Madikeri: Karnataka Minister for Revenue R. Ashok has said that a Rs. 10 crore grant would be released shortly for construction of a permanent building for ‘Relief Centre’ in Kodagu district which is vulnerable to floods because of its hilly landscape. According to an official release, the Minister symbolically handed over the newly-built houses to…
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