Sir, The recent development to allow advance reservation by AC coach to travel by Malgudi Express is a welcome step, especially owing to anticipated rush during the upcoming Dasara. As Dasara festival is just a few days away, necessary arrangement should be made by the Railways to arrange for special trains between Bengaluru and Mysuru….

Sir, The main purpose of fixing metal barricades  or constructing a  road hump is to ensure that all motorists slow down at this point.  Humps or barricades are fixed in junctions to enable smooth flow of vehicles in all directions. But unfortunately in our city many of the motorists — especially the two-wheelers increase their…

Sir, Recently I happened to go through my old Driving License (DL) booklet [Form-6] issued by RTO in Karnataka which, unlike the current plastic card, carried 17 simple but very important road safety messages both in English and Kannada. The present generation, who are getting their DL in the form of plastic card, is missing…

Sir, Our Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Commissioner, K.H. Jagadeesha, must be complimented for his honest and practical approach towards the overall development of Mysuru. On Sept. 26, through the people-friendly WhatsApp Us column of Star of Mysore, I had brought to the notice of the Commissioner regarding the uneven footpath in front of Marimallappa High…

Sir,  Apropos the letter from C.N. Srinath, Director, Dhvanyaloka, Bogadi Road, Mysuru, under the caption “Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar’s Birth Centenary: Make A Beginning”  in SOM dated Sept. 12. It is heartening to read the concern shown by Srinath in this regard. But his comment that “the Palace family at least should have evinced some interest in…

Sir, This year KRS Dam has filled to the brim, and quite early too. Mysureans are seen using water luxuriously inside and all round their houses. We are accustomed to be callous in this area any way ! However, it is right time to take suitable steps to conserve water. Heavy rains have resulted in…

Sir, On behalf of the citizens, I request the MCC to provide an e-toilet  opposite Aishwarya Driving School on Valmiki Road. There is no public toilet in the area and men come and urinate in the open space on CFTRI side opposite residence and apartments on Valmiki Road. Even customers who come to the food…

Sir, A construction work is being undertaken on the Guest House Road in Nazarbad, between the Canara Bank, Nazarbad Branch and Hotel Siddartha. For quite sometime now the contractor of the building under construction has placed construction material on the busy main road and the same has become a public nuisance. The vehicles coming from…

Sir, Last month, a pre-cast concrete compound wall was erected surrounding a residential vacant corner site No. 212, situated at High-Tension I Main Road and 4th Cross junction of CFTRI Employees Layout. This compound is very high and has no grill openings (see picture) and is creating a blind corner for the motorists. As a…

Sir, Apropos ‘Hotch-potch patch work to fill potholes’ (SOM dated Sept. 18), there is a saying in Urdu ‘Jaldi ka kaam, Shaitan ka kaam’  — roughly translated, it means ‘Work done in a haste, is Devil’s work’. Dasara works are done in the last hour year after year and crores are spent, as you rightly…