Tag: Vani Vilas Water Works

Poor response to MCC’s one-time water bill plan
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Poor response to MCC’s one-time water bill plan

December 5, 2022

Only 1,674 consumers utilise offer; interest waiver still pending with State Government Mysore/Mysuru: In July this year, the cash-strapped Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) launched a new plan to collect pending water bill dues that have reached a whopping Rs. 220 crore. As per the scheme, if the pending bills are paid in one go, the…

Online water bill payment through NEFT resumed
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Online water bill payment through NEFT resumed

September 15, 2022

Other modes of payment through Google Pay, PhonePe to be readied in a week Mysore/Mysuru: The online water bill payment, which was stopped since two months due to technical issues, has been rectified and water consumers can now pay their water bill through National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) as of now. Other modes of payment…

Mock drill held to tackle chemical spill
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Mock drill held to tackle chemical spill

July 29, 2022

Mysore/Mysuru: More than 50 persons including women and children took ill as gas leaked from a chlorine cylinder installed at a park adjacent to Railway Loco Colony, opposite Vani Vilas Water Works on KRS Road in Yadavagiri on the evening of March 8 this year. Though it was a minor incident, it was a horrifying…

Outdated chlorination machines pose huge risk
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Outdated chlorination machines pose huge risk

March 11, 2022

Only one out of 13 water purifying plants in city uses modern leak-proof vacuum feed technology Staff not professionally trained to handle the highly sensitive job at MCC’s Vani Vilas Water Works By Mohan Kayaka Mysore/Mysuru: Lakhs of city residents get purified drinking water daily through Vani Vilas Water Works (VVWW), the drinking water arm…

Chlorine gas leak: Patients recover at many hospitals
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Chlorine gas leak: Patients recover at many hospitals

March 8, 2022

Similar incident had taken place in Yadavagiri about 15 years ago Mysore/Mysuru: More than 50 persons including women and children took ill as gas leaked from a chlorine cylinder installed at a park adjacent to Railway Loco Colony, opposite Vani Vilas Water Works (VVWW) on KRS Road in Yadavagiri last evening. The leak began at…

Rs. 190 crore water dues burden MCC
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Rs. 190 crore water dues burden MCC

February 28, 2022

Month-long disconnection and regularisation drive begins Mysore/Mysuru: The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC), through its water supply arm — Vani Vilas Water Works (VVWW) — supplies water regularly to 1,85,000 houses, apartments, residential colonies, hostels and commercial complexes. Of them, only 80,000 pay their water dues and the rest do not pay a single rupee though…

Newly laid road washes away along with stored sand, jelly stones
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Newly laid road washes away along with stored sand, jelly stones

October 11, 2021

Mysore/Mysuru: The water tank at Vijayanagar First Stage leaked and lakhs of litres of drinking water spilled onto the streets yesterday. The water flow destroyed the road that was being newly laid. It later turned out to be not a water leak but water was intentionally emptied to restore a  malfunctioned valve. Road works are…

Water pipe breaks open near Chamarajapuram under-bridge
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Water pipe breaks open near Chamarajapuram under-bridge

August 12, 2021

Swift action by MCC, MUDA and VVWW teams Mysore/Mysuru: A water pipeline burst open near the Chamarajapuram Railway Under-bridge yesterday and drinking water jumped up like a spring, attracting a group of onlookers who were taking photos and shooting videos.  The flow right in the middle of the busy road started slowly and onlookers thought…

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