Mysore/Mysuru: Vijayanagar Road, a crucial link connecting various parts of the city, has become a nightmare for residents and businesses due to incomplete Underground Drainage (UGD) works. The ongoing construction, which started one-and-a-half months ago, is incomplete yet and has severely disrupted daily life of people. Following rains, the already dug-up road has turned into…
As Robot fails, MCC pins hopes on ‘Super Sucker Machines’
June 25, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: With the failure of Bandicoot Robot to deliver on expected lines, Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) will be soon having Super Sucker Machines to address Underground Drainage (UGD) related complaints efficiently. Mayor Shivakumar said, “There are several UGD related complaints in city and with the addition of Super Sucker Machines, 80 percent of the complaints…
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…
A major mishap averted as JCB touches underground power cable
January 18, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Thanks to divine intervention, a major mishap was averted when the front portion of a JCB machine came in contact with a 11KV underground power cable on the road next to NR Police Station in Rajendranagar on Saturday. The MCC has taken up Underground Drainage (UGD) works at 3rd Cross in Rajendranagar’s Pension Block…
Contract UGD workers stage protest in front of MCC
December 14, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: The contract Underground Drainage (UGD) workers of Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) staged a demonstration in front of MCC office in city this morning seeking regularisation of all 231 contract Pourakarmikas (Safai Karmacharis). The demonstrators shouted slogans and urged the civic body to scrap the contract system and also to pay breakfast allowance to them…
MCC UGD workers to stage demonstration on Dec.14
December 12, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Seeking regularisation of services and payment of morning breakfast allowance, Underground Drainage (UGD) workers of Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) will stage a demonstration on Dec. 14 in front of MCC office. Addressing a press meet here on Thursday, N. Mara, President of Committee of Underground Drainage Workers, Assistants and Pourakarmikas Association, said that there…
UGD re-construction work launched
October 31, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Chamaraja MLA L. Nagendra on Thursday performed guddali puja (ground-breaking ceremony) in front of Bank of Maharashtra in Jayalakshmipuram, for the reconstruction of the Under-Ground Drainage (UGD) along Kalidasa Road. Speaking on the occasion, Nagendra said that the reconstruction of the UGD will be taken up from Mathrumandali Circle (Chandramouleshwara Temple) in V.V. Mohalla…
Twenty-three years since formation… Sharadanagar Railway Layout residents denied of basic facilities
August 13, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Formed in 1997 by the South Western Railway Employees House Building Co-operative Society on a 44 acre land with 640 sites distributed and about 70 percent houses built, basic facilities such as good roads, parks etc. is a mirage even to this day for the residents of Sharada Nagar Railway Layout. Apart from just…
Temporary relief to Saraswathipuram 6th Main Road residents
August 7, 2020Corporator gets excavated mud removed from front of houses, assures of completing UGD works soon Mysore/Mysuru: Unscientific Underground Drainage (UGD) works, which had forcibly ‘quarantined’ the residents of Saraswathipuram 6th Main Road as they were unable to come out of their houses or even take out their vehicles for work or during emergencies, can now…
Unscientific UGD works ‘Quarantine’ Saraswathipuram 6th Main Road residents
August 4, 2020Even an ambulance cannot be summoned in emergencies amidst pandemic, fears an elderly citizen Mysore/Mysuru: Unscientific Underground Drainage (UGD) works has forcibly ‘quarantined’ the residents of Saraswathipuram 6th Main Road as they are unable to come out of their houses or even take out their vehicles for work or during emergencies. Just a couple of…
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