Is This Building Legal?

A 5-storey commercial building is coming up on a residential site at the circle opposite V.V. Puram Police Station . This building is in violation of Mysore City Corporation building bylaws and will pose serious problems to pedestrians and vehicular traffic. There are no setbacks and the cellar which should be used for parking according to bylaws will evidently be not used for parking since no access has been provided (Even if access can be provided, it will violate 1:10 slope mandated by law).

E-commerce Posing A Stiff Challenge To Retail Commerce

MGP held a public meeting on e-commerce on Sunday. Mr. R. Sateesh, Promoter, Yellow Pages was the main speaker. He explained the transformation that has taken place in the means of communication between person to person and its impact on the way people do commerce. The advent of mobile and internet has brought fundamental transformations in this sphere and the e-Commerce is an automatic off-shoot of this transformation. He explained the changes in the technological and economic parameters which have resulted in such a transformation and the emergence of very strong social media the world over.

Another black mark on Mysore Master Plan

It has been reported in the media that there is not enough room in the Attarah Kacheri building which houses the DC's Office and other offices and efforts to locate a site suitable for constructing a latger building have failed.

Till recently, extensive discussions were being held about the Mysore Master Plan which was proposed by MUDA in 2012. Since DC is the highest government official in the district, many of these discussions must have taken place in the DC's Office. Did the lack of space not occur to anyone then? Because, there is no mention of it in the Master Plan.

Is There No Escape From Road Blocking?

A group of people blocked Bengaluru-Mysuru road on Sunday night (26-10-14) because some accident had occurred on that road. The road blocking which happened late at night must have severely inconvenienced innumerable travellers, especially elderly people, children and ladies.

MGP’s Monthly Public Meeting Discusses Dasara 2014

MGP’s monthly public meeting provided an opportunity to the participants to share their personal experiences of recently concluded Dasara. There was a feeling that this Dasara was high on publicity and claims and not so high on the basics. Even though it was claimed that around 6 lakh people witnessed Dasara no toilet facilities were made available all along the route. So much so, a member who has worked as Traffic Warden during the Dasara procession shared his experience of the participants in the procession, particularly women participants searching for non existing mobile toilets . Their agony was writ large on their faces. And

MYMUL Officials Interact with Public

At a meeting on held ny Mysore Grahakara Parishat on 24-9-14 and chaired by R. Chandra Prakash, MGP President, Sri. Rajashekhara Murthy, Marketing Manager, MYMUL, interacted with the public about MYMUL products. Some of the important issues raised by the audience were: non-availability of 1-litre milk packets (and the resulting one rupee penalty on consumers who buy two half liter packets), difficulty          in

Bus travellers, register your complaints

Mysore Grahakara Parishat held a public meeting in several months ago in which officials of KSRTC promised that most of the problems raised at the meeting would soon be solved and that there would be a noticeable all-round improvement in the bus services by April 2014.

Railways terminate contract on traveller's complaint

I travelled in Gol Gumbaz Express from Mysore to Bijapur a couple of months ago. We were given bedding at Bengaluru, but it was both dirty and wet. I lodged a written complaint with the TT on the train, but was not sure that any action would be taken. When I received an SMS from the railways that my complaint had been closed, I thought that my fears were justified. But just on a hunch, I checked with the railways on the cause for the closure and was pleasantly surprised to learn that the bedroll contract for the train was terminated for deficiency in service, based on my complaint.