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Greening of Mysore
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City corporation, which planted over 30,000 saplings last year, has no such plan for this monsoon, says 'The Hindu', quoting commissioner A B Ibrahim. And, on the other hand, we are losing green cover to make way for road widening and laying concrete footpath. In the absence of a tree-plantation pro...
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Rotary Mysore
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Entrepreneurs planning on new business in Mysore could get guidance from the entrepreneurship development cell, Rotary secretariat, Rotary Centre, JLB Road. E-mail president@rotarymysore.org ; Fax. 91 - 821 - 2426000
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Lions District Convention
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Nearly 2000 delegates from various parts of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh are expected to attend the 29th Lions district convention on April 16-17 at Kalamandira, Mysore. Details from convention secretary N Subramanya, e-mail: stateseng@eth.net. As a part of the Lions social welfare activitie...
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A Cherished Club-card
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It's always a pleasure to come back to this lovely city (Mysore), he says, and proudly flaunts his life membership card of the Kanteerava Narasimharaja Sports Club, which is more special to him than any other prestigious club in the world. -- Ravi Shankar, NRI Banker in the UK, quoted in 'Star of Mysor...
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Honoured Teacher Who Hated Maths in School
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“I have lived the experience of many of my students,” writes an American school teacher, “which includes hating math and failing in math”. And she talks about her school experiences to her students – “I’m brutally honest”. This Oakley school teacher, Deborah Berry, has been chosen ‘teacher of the y...
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Mysore Citizens' / Residents' Forum
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http://mysore.12.forumer.com/
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Sep 25, 2005
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Connecting Third World artisans to US market
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www.ezaria.com is the website through which Harvard student Alex Captain and a few friends connect artisans in the developing world with US market. Consumers can choose from photo albums of handicrafts, hand-crafted knickknack and other gift items made in Africa, Asia, and the Mid-east and the p...
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How to sustain?
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This question "How does the Overall City Development & Sustain"?
Where does the Government or the Corporation get funds to sustain and also develop?
Get a loan from funding agencies? oops.. have to give it a serious thought, the high rate of interest, paying tax payers money. Lets fo...
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Boulevard Hoardings: A Massive Eyesore in the Making
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A positive civic idea takes time to gain all-round acceptance. A purely profit-motivated proposal, on the other hand, appears to get speedy municipal clearance. Such as the ecological rape of tree-line of Krishnaraja Boulevard that has been accomplished, virtually overnight. A row of 35 rect...
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Bangalore-Mysore Double-Track Tangle
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As Karnataka and the rail ministry tangle over funding the unfinished Bangalore-Mysore double-tack rail link, social activist Maj. Gen S G Vombatkera (retd) has sought to put the issue in perspective. The 10 percent stand-off involving the government and the railways works out to Rs.30 crores, h...
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When the City Stinks
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The city stinks when its sanitation staff take to the war path. Garbage bins overflow as 'pourakarmikas' have gone on strike. As if staying away from work is not troublesome enough, a mischief-minded section of striking workers is reportedly resorting to nasty tactics - littering streets and choc...
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Drafting Mysore Master Plan
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What follows is a set of talking points drafted by Bhamy Shenoy, representing the working group on Social Infrastructure (health and education).
Healthcare: Map out localities with concentration of BLP, low, middle and high income people. Indicate location of p...
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Palace Sound 'n' Light Show
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It's heartening to note the proposal for a sound and light show at the Palace is taking shape. The Rs.1.5 crore project for an hour-long show to be directed by T S Nagabharana is reported to be awaiting clearance from the department of archaeology. (One would think the department should have been invo...
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Planning Heritage Park
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MUDA is reported to be in consultation with the heritage and archaeological departments to select items and artefacts to be displayed at the proposed 'heritate park' on a 32-acre space, close to Lalith Mahal Palace. Talking of heritage, the names that come to mind are Maj. Gen. Vombatkere (retd.) a...
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Do We Need a Mysore Task Force ?
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We could do without it, say some municipal corporation members, questioning the contribution made by the Mysore Agenda Task Force (MATF). They alleged, at a municipal body meeting (March 18), that MATF members masqueraded as 'proprietors' of Mysore. One would have thought that if the task force m...
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Televise debates on civic issues
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Member of the heritage committee and social activist Maj.Gen. S G Vombatkere (retd.) would like to see transparancy in discussions on matters of civic concern. He stresses the need for an open forum at which representatives of the city corporation, MATF, MGP and other interest groups could intera...
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Why This Contempt For the Clock?
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I rang up a bank official the other day to enquire about opening NRI account; he said he would call back with info, but hasn't. An electircal lighting appliances shop that was to fix a fault in our household fittings between 2 and 3 one afternoon didn't do it. Reminded about the lapse the shopowne...
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Correction
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Sorry, I slipped up. It's K K Mookerji, not M M as posted earlier. Mr Mookerji is MD of a pioneering unit in Mysore on the IT front. (See 'Making of Boom Town, Sid Shows Us How')
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Water Supply Perspective
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City corporation commissioner A B Ibrahim put the finger on it when he observed that the current water crisis in Mysore has much to with the power politics that is being played out, keeping in view the coming corporation election (due next year). He couldn't have been more candid. And refreshingly so...
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A Temple on Footpath
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A Hanuman temple has come up on KRS Road pavement, near Gokul Theatre, says Satish Kumar Chetty in a letter to 'The Hindu' (May 2, 2005).
A footpath is no place for a temple.Inconvenienced padestrians may put up with it, in devotion to their favourite deity or in deference to the religious sentiment...
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Dumping Animal Waste in Cauvery
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The Mysore Agenda Task Force (MATF) has detected that animal waste of slaughtered animals is dumped into Cauvery near Siddapura, some 60 km from KRS reservoir. MATF member M Lashmana, who has a videotape showing floating bones and other waste litter on the river bank, shared the story with the media...
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Pavement Books-mart
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We, in Mysore, can do with a weekly pavement mart, say, on Devraj Urs Road on Sundays, in which used book-sellers from various parts of the town could come together to set up shop - on the day when the regular shops have their weekly holiday. Book-lovers who have been around would be familiar with such pa...
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Recycled Copybooks for the Needy
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'Samarpana', a Rajajinagar based social service agency in Bangalore, recycles discarded school notebooks into fresh ones for distribution among the needy students. Used notebooks are collected from schools and unused blank-pages are removed for rebinding into fresh copybooks (100-200 page...
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MATF: Thorn in the Flesh for MCC
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MATF, it seems, has proved to be a thorn in the flesh for the city municipal corporation. Its councillors are particularly peeved at the temerity of some MATF members, notably Mr Lakshmana, to expose serious lapses in water supply management. Typical of the councillors' grouses: 1) they (MATF) int...
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A Metro rail for Mysore ?
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Maybe, it becomes a possibility sometime later. And the Mysore Urban Development Authority (MUDA) plans to have a feasiblity survey done, just in case. Muda commissioner Pankaj Kumar Pandey reckons that in a few years a metro rail may become financially feasible and the survey would be handy to get...
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Subway ? No Way
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We know there is a solution to every problem. But the city corporation appears to have a knack for creating problems for every other solution they come up with. Their subway proposal iullustrates the point.
MCC Solution: The city corporation recently announced plans to build subways unde...
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Concept lighting
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Has it occured to anyone in the KEB ,that this city has a centre piece which is a well fortified palace.Insteard of spending funds meaninglessly on just lighting up the streets of the city ,we could carry out concept lighting in the city providing it a fantacy look at nights.This could boost tourism (B...
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Those Eye-hitting Hoardings
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Making Mysore hoardings-free is a tall order. Regulating their settings, location and size is however quite another matter.The city mayor Dakshinamurthy has involved in this task a representative committee of public-spirited individuals, including the Mysore Agenda Task Force (MATF - R Guru...
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Closed Minds Get Us Nowhere
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A key to progress is open-mindedness and willingness to learn from others. Solutions to most of our problems are in our mind; and the context around us is not a constraint. We, in India, are defeated by our mind. Why Poverty's here to Stay ? Because we keep merit away. Let's give meritocracy a chance. Th...
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More, from the Infosys founder
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We should change our attitude towards our duties and rights in a civilised society. While in other countries they place duties before rights, in India people put rights before their duties. - Narayana Murthy, at the stone-laying ceremony of the Geetha Shishu Shikshana Sangha Institute of Enginee...
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