Sir, Though the idea of installing metal barricades as speed breakers instead of unscientifically executed speed breakers of various sizes and shapes, is definitely praise-worthy, the condition of most of the metal barricades are not satisfactory. Most of the metal barricades installed by the authorities concerned are not visible during night hours, since no  reflecting…

Sir, I would like to draw the attention of the authorities concerned towards the bad condition of the roads in our locality. The condition of the road has been pretty bad with crater-like potholes and due to this there has been more accidents. On behalf of the residents of Srirampura 3rd Stage, I request the…

Sir, The Maruthi Tent Circle on Sahukar Chennaiah Road is a major junction where many motorists commute every hour. This is the main road that leads to RIE and AIISH. There are many schools, colleges and institutions too in this vicinity. Vehicles approaching will commute at a high speed as there is a declination on…

Sir, A lot of time has passed since the announcement of giving a facelift to the roads in the city and repairing the atrocious potholes that are present in almost all the roads. Then came the announcement of the granting of funds and then came the inevitable bickering and fighting for the funds. The Mayor…

Sir, While the entire nation is getting and moving on to digitalisation and paperless offices at all sectors, it seems RTO Mysuru is going backwards in this regard.  Decades ago, the RC issued by RTO were in book format, which later was downsized and then to small one.  Subsequently, RTO introduced RC cards in the…

Sir, I have come to New Jersey  State in USA to stay with my son for a few months. Here I noticed that  the  number plates  of the vehicles had ‘Garden State’ written on them apart from the usual ‘New Jersey’ and the registration number. I came to understand that New Jersey had vast tracts …

Sir, I was shocked to read the news item in Star of Mysore a few days ago that there is a proposal to increase the electricity tariff by about Rs.2.69 per unit in Karnataka. My request and suggestion to the authorities concerned would be to decrease the present tariff  by  studying and implementing the following:…

Sir, The arrival of self-test kits for covid-19 is a welcome step as these are fairly cheap apart from preventing the need to visit test centres. This way, it is a boon. The rule says that those availing self-tests have to upload the result, if found positive, on the ICMR site. If negative, it may…

She was a strong link in the chain of musicians of Hemmige community Sir, Vidushi H.S. Mahalakshmi, a renowned Karnatak music vocalist, passed away in city on Feb. 20 following a heart attack. Words fall too short to express our sorrow about the sad demise of the 86-yers-old vocalist. Born in the year 1936 at…

Sir, Very recently, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said that vaccine hesitancy is one of the greatest threats to global health. Similar to this, helmet hesitancy is also the greatest threat to two-wheeler riders who do not wear helmet while on ride. Not wearing helmets resulted in 44,666 deaths of two-wheeler riders which includes 30,148…