MUDA has planned interactions on October 17 and 18 with experts and the general public about the draft Master Plan for Mysore Nanjangud Local Planning Area 2031 (MPM). Will the
interactions lead to redoing the plan as is needed? Or will they simply result in cosmetic changes only? MUDA appears to be in a big hurry to get MPM approved by the government. There is a feeling that approval of the present MPM will allow vested interests to make a killing on the land they are holding. For their benefit, MPM should not sacrifice the wellbeing of millions of Mysoreans. The MPM should be addressing the following four major crises which are threatening Mysore City, but I cannot find any answers in the MPM to these problems.
Water Crisis
There is a shortage of rains this year and Mysore city is facing a terrible water problem. If you look at past records, we are sure to face bigger droughts in the future, but the MPM does not consider this possibility at all. With the population of Mysore rising rapidly, this is a scary prospect. Why has the MPM not included the 50 year master plan prepared by Karnataka Urban Water Supply and Drainage Board?
Traffic Crisis
The traffic situation in the city is getting worse by the day. Vehicle ownership is increasing fast with higher incomes and so also accidents in the city. The day when the traffic in Mysore will come to a grinding halt in a gridlock is not far away. The traffic police still do not have a computer simulation model to find solutions to the traffic problems of either today or the future.
Garbage Crisis
It must be a cruel joke to award Mysore City the second cleanest city in the country award. With the lack of planning in the MPM with reference to garbage handling, we will soon be drowning in garbage. How did MPM underestimate the current generation of garbage as just 350 tons per day? Why has MPM ignored several studies done for the city by other experts on this subject?
Heritage crisis
MMP pays a lot of lip service to the need for preserving the city’s heritage. Forget about preserving heritage, we are destroying it at an alarming rate. How can anyone allow a huge mall in the heart of the city next to the historic palace? How can a parking lot be constructed within the premises
of the Town Hall, another heritage building? Very soon there will be no heritage left to preserve!
Instead of catering to the demands of developers who are holding large tracts of agricultural land around Mysore waiting for the green signal from the MPM for development, MUDA and the
implementing agencies should be planning for the above crises which may toll the deathknell of Mysore. Will MUDA be ready to discuss them during their planned interaction.
Dr. Bhamy V Shenoy, MGP
interactions lead to redoing the plan as is needed? Or will they simply result in cosmetic changes only? MUDA appears to be in a big hurry to get MPM approved by the government. There is a feeling that approval of the present MPM will allow vested interests to make a killing on the land they are holding. For their benefit, MPM should not sacrifice the wellbeing of millions of Mysoreans. The MPM should be addressing the following four major crises which are threatening Mysore City, but I cannot find any answers in the MPM to these problems.
Water Crisis
There is a shortage of rains this year and Mysore city is facing a terrible water problem. If you look at past records, we are sure to face bigger droughts in the future, but the MPM does not consider this possibility at all. With the population of Mysore rising rapidly, this is a scary prospect. Why has the MPM not included the 50 year master plan prepared by Karnataka Urban Water Supply and Drainage Board?
Traffic Crisis
The traffic situation in the city is getting worse by the day. Vehicle ownership is increasing fast with higher incomes and so also accidents in the city. The day when the traffic in Mysore will come to a grinding halt in a gridlock is not far away. The traffic police still do not have a computer simulation model to find solutions to the traffic problems of either today or the future.
Garbage Crisis
It must be a cruel joke to award Mysore City the second cleanest city in the country award. With the lack of planning in the MPM with reference to garbage handling, we will soon be drowning in garbage. How did MPM underestimate the current generation of garbage as just 350 tons per day? Why has MPM ignored several studies done for the city by other experts on this subject?
Heritage crisis
MMP pays a lot of lip service to the need for preserving the city’s heritage. Forget about preserving heritage, we are destroying it at an alarming rate. How can anyone allow a huge mall in the heart of the city next to the historic palace? How can a parking lot be constructed within the premises
of the Town Hall, another heritage building? Very soon there will be no heritage left to preserve!
Instead of catering to the demands of developers who are holding large tracts of agricultural land around Mysore waiting for the green signal from the MPM for development, MUDA and the
implementing agencies should be planning for the above crises which may toll the deathknell of Mysore. Will MUDA be ready to discuss them during their planned interaction.
Dr. Bhamy V Shenoy, MGP