Mysuru: Water supply to Mysuru city by Vani Vilas Water Works (VVVW) has not been effective and comprehensive all these years despite crores of rupees being pumped into the system and the supply network being handed over to private players in the past. Activists and civic experts have criticised the VVVW for not being professional…
Finally, the potholed road in front of MCC Commissioner’s bungalow to be concreted
January 13, 2021MLA Nagendra performs guddali puja for road works, installation of RO Drinking Water Unit Mysore/Mysuru: At last, the potholed road from Ramanna Circle to Vani Vilas Water Works (VVWW) in Ward No. 18, where many houses including the official bungalow of Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Commissioner is located, a road that many mocked saying, “How…
Residents upset over improper filling of road cuttings
January 4, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Even as the MCC has warned that unauthorised road cutters will be heavily penalised, Vani Vilas Water Works (VVWW) that functions under the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC), has been accused of improper filling after it cut the road leading from KRS Road to Hebbal’s Kuvempu Circle. The MCC’s Underground Drainage (UGD) section and VVWW…
Illegal water pipes discovered
December 15, 2020Digging as part of Irwin Road works exposes underground pipes illegally laid to supply water to areas on either side of the road. Mysore/Mysuru: Leakage and pilferage apart, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has been struggling to regularise unauthorised water connections in city. At almost every MCC Council meeting, the issue of illegal water connection…
Improvised SCADA system to monitor every drop of water
September 11, 2020Rs. 50-crore project to be submitted to Government for approval: MP Pratap Simha Mysore/Mysuru: To streamline the city’s water distribution network and wastewater facilities, the Vani Vilas Water Works (VVWW), the water supply wing of Mysuru City Corporation (MCC), has planned to improvise the existing SCADA system that was implemented in 2008. A Rs. 50…
By June 2021, city to get 85 MLD extra water
August 16, 2020MGP monthly meeting held on water and sewage issues Mysore/Mysuru: The monthly meeting of Mysore Grahakara Parishat (MGP) was conducted online on Aug. 9 and the discussion was held in detail about ‘Water and Sewage issues of Mysuru’. Assistant Executive Engineers of Vani Vilas Water Works (VVWW) B.G. Vinay Kumar and B.A. Dhanush were present. …
Illegal drawing of water: VV Water Works seize pumpsets
August 11, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: The officials of Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) and Vani Vilas Water Works (VVWW), who raided several houses at Kurubarahalli for illegally pumping of water from the main water pipeline using water pumps, have seized the water pumps. The MCC and VVWW officials, with the help of Police and area Corporator, not only raided the…
Disruption in water supply
August 6, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: As Vani Vilas Water Works (VVWW) has taken up repair works, water supply will be disrupted today and tomorrow in the following areas coming under Ward Numbers 1 to 8, 18 to 27, 42 to 45 and 47: Hebbal, Kumbarakoppal, Manchegowdana Koppal, Mahadeshwara Layout, Basavanagudi, Lakshmikanta Nagar, Gokulam 1st, 2nd and 3rd Stages, Metagalli, …
Rs. 4 crore water tax collected after lockdown
June 26, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: After lockdown, the Vani Vilas Water Works (VVWW), the water supply arm of the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has collected water tax worth Rs. 4 crore from March 2020. The tax collection process has been speeded up to generate revenues, said VVWW Executive Engineer P. Nagaraja Murthy. Speaking to ‘Star of Mysore,’ he said…
Water Theme Park to come up on KRS Road near Vani Vilas Water Works
June 26, 2020A tribute to Rajamate Kempananjammanni Vani Vilasa Sannidhana Mysore/Mysuru: A Water Theme Park with a statue of Mysuru’s First Rajamate Kempananjammanni Vani Vilasa Sannidhana will come up on KRS Road near Vani Vilas Water Works (VVWW) opposite CFTRI compound. The Theme Park will be established by the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) and tenders have been…
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