MUDA issued a press release recently, warning owners of MUDA-allotted sites to keep the sites clean. We understand MUDA's concern for layouts still under its control, but its warning seems to cover even layouts handed over to Mysore City Corporation. When MCC is charging site cleaning charges for all the vacant sites under its control, MUDA need not have worried about their cleanliness.
The site cleaning tax of MCC (which, by the way, is not sanctioned by the Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act and hence is illegal) seems an easy way for the Corporation to make money. They are merely collecting the tax and are not cleaning the sites. We received a complaint recently from a vacant site owner who asked MCC why they are not cleaning his site even after collecting a site cleaning tax only to be told that he has to give an application in writing for it to be cleaned!
A.M. Subba Rao, Mysore Grahakara Parishat