Friday 4 March 2011

Photos from the March 2011 issue of Grahaka Patrike

(D.V. Dayanand Sagar)
MCC is permitting mobile towers to come up on residential and other buildings without caring for the objections of neighbours. Erecting mobile towers on residential buildings is a clear violation of zoning laws.

(B.V. Shenoy)
As part of the Save Electricity Campaign launched by CESC, Vasanthkumar Mysoremath of MGP showed students several simple ways of saving power.
(D.V. Dayanand Sagar)
C.V. Nagaraj of MGP was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by Bhramara Trust recently.

(B.V. Shenoy)
The Council of Architecture, New Delhi (a statutory body set up to regulate architects in the country) has found the architect of this apartment building in Mysore guilty of professional misconduct for issuing a completion certificate when the building was far from completion.

(B.V. Shenoy)
Mysore City Corporation can not issue CRs for apartment buildings having five (1+4) floors or more or taller than 15 meters without a No Objection Certificate from the Fire Services Department. But most apartment buildings do not have this NOC.

(B.V. Shenoy)
Till recently, 5 floors was the upper limit for apartment buildings in Mysore. But now, higher number of floors (some as hogh as 14) are being permitted. Such large buildings put a severe strain on the infrastructure (water supply, sewage drains, traffic density, etc.) of the city.


(B.V. Shenoy)
There have been complaints that several apartment buildings have built an additional floor after obtaining the Completion Report from Mysore City Corporation. But the Corporation does not appear to be taking any action on these complaints.