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Case for Trust-run Parking Lots
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Why doesn’t the city corporation lease out public parking lots to cash-strapped NGO trusts? Skeptics may ask: What’s the guarantee that NGOs won’t do hanky-panky or fleece parking lot users? There can be no answer to those who have a question for every answer. All that can be said is there is lesser sc...
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Wanted: Proactive Chamber of Commerce
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The Mysore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) ought make its presence felt in ways more meaningful than seeking incentives/concessions and other favours from the government. It is not anyone’s case that the chamber should not react to the government industrial policy (2006-11) an...
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Doubling Rly line between Blore& Mysore vs. 6lane track between Mysore & S' Patna
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People used to think that there is a jinx at work whenever the double railway line between Bangalore and Mysore work started.It's true! With the volume of traffic raising to dizzy heights ,going by train remains the cheapest mode of transport. Mysore is touted as a tourist spot and also...
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MGP move to attract youth
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Mysore Grahakara Parishat (MGP is reported to have extended a special invite to youth for participating in their monthly meet, Sunday (Aug.13). MGP focus is on youngsters working in IT sector, and students , particularly those pursuing MBA and courses on social work, law and commerce. I don't&nbs...
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Pratham in Mysore
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At Pratham, we need books like Genius. It is amazing how within a short period of 4 years we have been able to recruit, train and motivate 300 teachers just paying Rs. 300 per month, to make a difference in the life of more than 7500 children all living in the slums of Mysore. Th...
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Makkaji Chk.: Unpublicised 'puja'
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Transparancy hasn't been a plus point with our city officials. What else can one make of their studied silence over 'bhumi puja' plans for a project that is to come up on the city corporation land ? I can understand the compulsions of the private promoter (Maverick Holding & Investment Ltd...
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Makkaji Chowk another BMICP?
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Mysore Airport: Would it take off, ever?
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Would anyone know the latest on our airport front? I wish our DC and the airport project liaison office in Mysore (is it operational?) hold a public hearing to educate us on the issue. Airports in other Tier II towns - Pune, Madurai, Salem, Pondy - where the modernizing move was presumably made l...
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Aug 9, 2006
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NICE talking to Kheny
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HE was still seething when I called him yesterday morning. Only the previous evening, Housing Minister D.T. Jayakumar had, at a media meet, called the NICE man as belonging to land mafia. At first he seemed to neglect the man who had hit him that way, then spoke about his detractor with...
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Is the media accountable to readers?
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Some of us don’t think so. That is the message we get going through the thread of comments Capt. Anup Murthy evoked in response to his spirited blog on a ‘Star of Mysore’ report referring to the prospects of Mysore airport going international. The points raised by him and Mr K S Athul merit re-pla...
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May 31, 2006
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Ideas? No, please; we're Mysoreans
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Can't we copy a good idea when we see one? We have a Mysore city channel; we don't lack people with creative resources or talent to produce a TV programme. With some lobbying in the right quarters, we could even find sponsors with a charitable disposition. Why, then, can't we have a Jana Mana in Mysore? W...
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Devaraja Market: heritage or scrap-heap of history?
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Response has been overwhelming to our earlier item – Devaraja market: mayor has spoken. Comments have spilled over to Page 2, and some interesting ones could be missed out by those running out of patience to scroll down the full length. So we thought of copy-n-pasting the tail-end comments, to help t...
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May 1, 2006
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Heritage walk:Would it work in Mysore ?
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This was the question I had in mind as I read a blog piece in - Vincent's Jottings - on heritage walks in Mumbai and Mylapore (Chennai), I visualized groups of visitors/tourists and interested locals taking a Sunday morning walk-around some old Mysore mohallas. Wo...
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Saving Mysore's Park
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What crimes have we committed to deserve a minister-in-charge like D. T. Jayakumar? When there are more pressing problems of Mysore like water shortage or uncollcted garbage all over the city, or dysfunctional education system, why is the minister DTJ is concerned to solve the parking problems of...
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Making schooling relevant
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Wonder if what is being taught in smaller classes is relevant in the present context and situation.
I feel that in LKG and UKG children should be taught local and English language to speak with correct pronunciation and pause. Meaning of simple words should also...
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Web ideas, anyone ?
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“We all know what it is like to feel powerless, that our own actions can't really change the things that we want to change. PledgeBank is about beating that feeling by connecting you with other people who also want to make a change, but who don't want the personal risk of being the only person to turn up to...
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Tragic ironyof today's young generation
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Some time ago India Today published a report about the survey conducted at thier behest. I was particularly interested about the one targeting the young generation about their attitude ranging from politics, corruption, sexual mores etc. The conclusion based on the s...
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New Academic Year
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Dear Friends,
Being a father of two daughters who will be in class 8 and 3, certain issues have been bogging me since a couple of years. I request you to have some meaningful discussion on this topic and evolve a common ground for all schools to follow (atleast hope to !!)
First is the uniform. I see no...
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Apr 5, 2006
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Let's talk infrastructure
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Framework for aid under JNNURM (never mind what it stands for) makes it mandatory for the local body to move three ways:
1) Evaluate existing infrastructure for deficiency in service delivery;
2) Formulate a vision statement for Mysore city; and
3) Draw up a list of projects in consultatio...
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Mar 20, 2006
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Punctuality
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Jaganmohan Palace played host to a Bharatanatyam ballet on Draupadi Shapatham or Draupadi's Vow (not Draupadi's Oath as announced in the publicity material by the organizers) this evening. It was a good presentation of the Mahabharatha episode, but the ugly aspect of the programme was tha...
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Dignity
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For a while now, I have been not been a reporter. So, I am not in direct touch with what goes on in our police stations. A chance meeting with a known police officer here or, a reporter on crime-beat there, still affords me a periodic peek into the functioning of Mysore city police. These are...
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Let’s make a start
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Elsewhere on this site I wrote, by way of a comment to the post – ‘Let’s talk infrastructure’, the process defined by the NURM grant scheme is elaborate, as Dr.Shenoy has spelt out, ,but one worth following to bring about engagement between various stakeholders leading to transparency, assigning r...
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Forth coming corporation budget
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MGP also known as Mysore Grahachar Parishat and in recent days as Mysore Galata Parishat has been among other things taken up the issue of Corporation budget and finance seriously.
There is not one thing one can talk good about the whole process of developing this budget. There is very little com...
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Mar 2, 2006
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The D’Market garbage issue
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Recently, we read about a rift between the mayor and municipal commissioner over the garbage collection contract. As an upshot the mayor has put on hold the garbage issue, which is raising a stink, literally, at Devaraja Market. On a visit yesterday I found trash everywhere, even on Sayyaji Rao Road...
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NGOs: Beyond public toilets
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There has been a lot of mud slinging between government and other organisations; too many petty quarrels over the water issue. Perhaps, NGOs should, occasionally, help the government in city improvement. Newspaper reports speak of NGO's involvement in...
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Feb 16, 2006
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MGP at the Public hearings
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Must be thankful to public-spirited Mysoreans, notably MGP, for enabling a meaningful public hearing (Feb.3), set up by the state pollution control board to consider public ojections to an Infosys land acquisition plan. MGP's objections may not have been met on each and every ...
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Home Stay Tourists and Mysore
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http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/feb72006/state17710200626.asp for
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MGP’s speed bump to Infosys growth plan
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MGP (not the Mysore galatta parishat) is reported to have filed objection to an Infosys plan to acquire 61 acres to extend its 315-acre campus at Hebbal industrial area. The company wants the additional land, presumably, for residential buildings.
MGP’s objection: 1) The Rapid Environm...
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Devaraja Market: mayor has spoken
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The city mayor, Ms bharathi, has spoken. The heritage structure has to go. She tells ‘The Hindu’ (Dec.8, 2005), “even if the market is restored under the guidance of architects, it will not last more than 20 years”.
Ms.Bharathi’s prescription: bring down the old, build a new structure. The mayor h...
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Project Pygmalion: making learning a fun thing
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A Deccan Herald write-up by K Jayalakshmi talks of an NGO initiative that helps government school kids discover the joy of learning English. They call it Project Pygmalion. It seeks to impart learning skills that make classroom a fun place. It is being tried out in 20 schools in and around Mysore. Kud...
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