Sir, This refers to the front page news item titled “Littering in public to invite penalty from January 1, 2023” in SOM dated Dec. 9. Does the MCC and other authorities realise that Mysuru has become a “city of garbage”? Wherever we go about in the city, we find heaps of garbage everywhere. There are…

Sir, This is in continuation with the letter titled “An Appeal To Railways” published in this column dated Dec. 8. I too had a similar experience while travelling from Mysuru to Hyderabad on train number 12786. I am a frequent traveller in this train with my family and I book 2 tier AC. While boarding…

Sir, Every other road across Mysuru city needs repair and tarring. Soon after being elected, the present Mayor had said that his first  priority was roads and making it motorable. Later rains were a ruse and now planning the Peripheral Ring Road is laughable. All the roads need asphalting since nothing was done for the…

Sir, This refers to the news item in SOM dated Dec. 15 about the fire accident that occurred at Dasara Exhibition venue. It is also stated in the report that fire tenders were called from the Saraswathipuram Fire Station to douse the fire. As a learning from this, it is suggested as follows: One fire…

Sir, Payment of water bills online has not been possible for over six months. Whenever the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) or the Vani Vilas Water Works (VVWW) officials are approached, the standard reply or information given is that very soon it is being made available. How soon has remained anybody’s guess! Can it be hoped…

Sir, Of late we find that the street-lights are switched off at 6 am  from a central point which is a good thing and need of the hour. But now being winter season, sunrise is very late. So the morning joggers and walkers find it extremely difficult not to speak of the vast majority of…

Sir, For the past few days street-lights on Valmiki Road in V.V. Mohalla are being switched off 10-15 minutes before sunrise, leaving the road dark for morning pedestrians. Hope MCC will ask the staff concerned to switch off the lights after sun rises. – Sanjay Kini, Mysuru, 8.12.2022 You can also mail us your views,…

Sir, While I deeply appreciate the thought of installing barricades at the Hardinge Circle (also known as Aar-gate) was to reduce accidents, it is also admissible that it is not only an eyesore in front of one of the most iconic junctions in the city but also a traffic bottleneck now. Considering that crores of…

Sir, I have seen at many places, the milk crates are offloaded in the wee hours when it is still dark and left on the centre of the main roads where Nandini booths are located. As the roads are not lit well, the crates lying on the roads would not be visible from a distance…

Sir, The Mysuru Urban Development Authority’s (MUDA) plans to build a new Peripheral Ring Road is indeed a hasty and unreasonable decision (SOM dated Nov. 23, 2022). There are thousands of roads inside the city and many smaller roads inside layouts which are not properly tarred and they look uneven, muddy, shabby, absolutely unmotorable and…