Sir, This is a request on behalf of the residents of Bank Employees Colony, off Ring Road, Bogadi. Presently, only one bus No. 69 C comes to our Colony. This bus is from city market to Bapuji Nagar and the frequency between the trips is more than an hour. We need one more route to…

Sir, I am a retired Staff Nurse, residing in N.R.Mohalla. Every day morning I go for walk and yesterday I strolled on a road in front of N.R. Mohalla Police Station. The road is in a pathetic condition and drainages are the worst. I don’t know why these people are not giving any complaint and…

Sir, The Mysuru City Corporation has been kind enough to lay three feet footpath with paver tiles in many extensions. One such beneficiary is the Temple Road, Jayalakshmipuram. It is however sad to see educated people parking their cars and scooters on these footpaths not realising that they are encroaching on the space meant for…

Sir, Of late with increasing tourists to Mysuru, the traffic on City-Nanjangud Road in front of Palace – Exhibition faces a lot of traffic jams. One of the main contributors of the traffic is our city buses. There are around 500 city buses in Mysuru. All of them enter City Bus Stand (CBS) and make…

Sir, In the past, many traffic signals were installed at prominent places in Mysuru city which was a welcome move.  However, during course of time, these traffic lights became defunct and it seems nobody is bothered to reactivate this.  One such point is Kumbarakoppal junction on the KRS Road. The newly-constructed Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology…

Sir, In recent times, Aadhaar has become mandatory for many purposes. Public are facing lot of hardships and inconvenience in getting Aadhaar or updating it. For instance, at MysoreOne centre in Ramakrishnanagar, people start standing in queues from 7 am or earlier, onwards to get application, which will be issued only at 10 am, that…

Sir, Star of Mysore is a Dhruva Thare (Pole Star). From New York, I along with my wife and children convey our best wishes  to SOM on its 40th anniversary celebrations. In reality, this evening newspaper of Mysuru is like a Dhruva Thare. As in every evening it comes out in the blue sky and…

Sir, Further to the letter by Varadaraju on the plight of Srirampura main road (SOM dated Feb. 19), I would like to add a few points. The entire stretch of the road is approximately 1.5 to 1.8 kms. Though the road laying work was started 9 months back, the road was in a pathetic condition…

Sir, The book, Star of Mysore­ —  Story of a unique evening english newspaper, sent to me with KBG’s signature is a book I treasure. I convey my deep appreciation of the book which I completed reading in one sitting. The saga of KBG’s struggle to remain afloat for 40 years in an extremely competitive…

Sir, Our street lights were mostly not functioning throughout the year. This time I thought of contacting MCC and get a solution. I went online to MCC website and got a mobile number to which a WhatsApp message could be sent describing the problem being faced. The mobile number I got is: 82777-77728. I sent…