Mysuru: Several wards of the city went dry on the festive occasion of Ugadi. This sad state of affairs came to be questioned at the council meeting held at the Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar Auditorium on Tuesday.
During the meeting Councillors and the Mayor, R. Lingappa, lambasted four engineers, Keshav, Rajagopal, Chandrashekar and Jayram of he KUWS&DB for their negligence and inablity to respond to public demands as well as those of the councillors. These councillors included Balasubramanyam (Shyam), Sandesh Nagaraj, Jagadish.
The meeting was a continuation of the adjourned meeting that resulted in allegations by a few councillors against the MCC Commissioner C G Betsurmath for alleged centralisation of power and the ignorance of public representatives voices on February 26.
At the meeting the Mayor recalled that he had directed the concerned officers to quickly respond to the councillor Balasubramanyam’s appeal on March 21, but the concerned engineers ignored his instructions and the councillor and failed to supply water.
However, the engineers tried to convince the combative Councillors saying that there was an electricity problem and other technical issues which prevented them from supplying water that day.
No permanent solution for dtreet dog menace
Councillor including Ayub Khan, M V Ramprasad, Sandesh Swamy expressed disappointment at the lack of a comprehensive solution to the street dog menace though the MCC was tendering the same since 2010. The tenders that have had a limited impact have resulted crores of public funds being spent. The number of street dogs has not yet decreased. Besides, there are many dog bite cases are reported from several areas in the city, the councillors pointed out.
Statues will decorate circles in the city
Responding to a proposal, the MCC Council chaired by Mayor R Linagappa, Deputy Mayor M Mahadevamma, MCC Commissioner C G Betsurmath approved to install statues in many spots in the city which included statues of Shivarathri Rajendra Swamiji at Shivarathri Rajendra Circle, Kempegowda near Columbia Hospital on the Bangaluru Mysuru Highway, Sangolli Rayanna at Kurubarahalli Circle, Sri Balagangadharanatha Swamiji at the Apollo Hospital Circle, and Kanakadasa at Kanakadasa Circle near Nanjumalige.
However, expressing dissatisfaction, councillor Ayub Khan pointed out that there should be precise criteria prescribed for the installation of statues to prevent the establishment of statues as triggers for conflict between communities based on prominence given to their leader’s statues.
However, H L Srikantaiah explained that the Commissioner of MCC have provision to withdraw the proposals after discussing with Mayor, if any statues are found to have violated govt norms. The three member chair including Mayor R Linagappa, Deputy Mayor M Mahadevamma, MCC Commissioner C G Betsurmath committed themselves to follow the available norms in this regard, strictly.
