Sir, We drive around various Police barricades on all roads. But what purpose do they serve other than increasing hazardous driving? Our Police think that an obstruction in our path prevents speeding or accidents. It is not so. A barricade put up near Harsha Bar, Bogadi Main Road, has clearly indicated otherwise. More accidents have…

Sir, This year’s Dasara festival is fast approaching but the construction of multi-level parking facility in the Town Hall premises is not completed. As a result, once again, it may lead to parking issues in the busy central business district area. On the other side, people are parking their vehicles as per their whims and…

Sir, Recently I was shopping in our neighbourhood and it being a Sunday afternoon, there were not many vehicles on the road. There were some shoppers in the area and many of them were shopping in the Mega Store on Hebbal Main Road and parked their two-wheelers in front of the Store which is a…

Sir, After several cases of lap driving (taking kids on the lap of the rider/driver while driving), very recently I saw a person holding the baby, may be less than a year or so, in one hand and driving the two-wheeler with another hand (see photo), which is a road safety hazard. Surprisingly a woman,…

Sir, The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) civic workers have not collected garbage for the last one week in residential apartments in and around Siddartha Layout. MCC has come up with the order that garbage will not be collected even if segregated from establishments with 5,000 sq. m area or greater area. The same is to…

Sir, I would like to draw the attention of authorities concerned and elected representatives towards the over-emphasis on helmetless riding or production of documents or wrong parking and ignoring other types of violations which are very rampant and perhaps more dangerous to public safety. I am very sorry to observe that many a times this…

Sir, Apropos the news item “Hinkal Flyover not before Dasara” (SOM dated Sept.17), we find that most of the works executed by Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) or Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) gets extended much beyond the stipulated deadline to complete the projects. May be owing to biased contract agreement terms favouring the contractors, works…

Sir, I first wish to congratulate Dr. Bhamy Shenoy for his factual, fearless, scientific and informative article titled “Petrol & Diesel: Do we see fake news floating?” (SOM dated Sept. 11). This article should be published in all the leading national dailies also and I would urge Dr. Shenoy to give an interview on TV…

Sir, The Ministry of Communications under the Department of Posts has ventured into the Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) sector through the recent launch of India Post Payments Bank (IPBB). The launch aims to capture the small and medium enterprise customer,  along with penetrating into every rural household. The launch comes at a time…

Sir, Of late, as many SOM readers have been pointing out, the traffic situation in Mysuru has been going from bad to worse. Having been in Bengaluru for nearly three decades spread in both millennia, I have personally seen how the traffic situation went from good to bad and then to worse/ worst. And I…