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…

Sir, Following the cooker bomb blast case in Mangaluru recently and with the Police zeroing in on the house of the suspected youth with terror-links in Metagalli, all vehicles entering Mysuru are being checked at all the entry points by noting down  the vehicle number, name of the driver, their mobile number etc.  This is…

Sir, Years have gone by and the problem of tourist parking has not been solved yet by the Mysuru Zoo authorities. Every year lakhs of tourists visit Zoo and just to save a minimum parking money, they park their vehicles in every other street, in front of our homes and then argue with us! I…

Sir, I recently travelled to Bengaluru from Mysuru in Wodeyar SF Express (AC-C1) and my experience was pathetic. The coach has been maintained very badly and we could see so many cockroaches freely crawling near and behind the window curtains which are close to the seats. The bathrooms, both Western and Indian, were in a…

Sir, On behalf of the train travellers, I request the Railways to extend Varanasi-Mysuru Bi-Weekly  Superfast Express upto Mangaluru since there is no direct train between Mangaluru and Varanasi. Also it will benefit people traveling from Mysuru, Kalaburagi, Yadgir, Raichur, Ballari and Chitradurga upto Mangaluru. During festive season and tourist season, this train covers almost…