Siddartha Layout News Today

Mysore/Mysuru: The magnificent heritage style multi-crore District Office Complex at Siddartha Layout on Bannur Road will soon house the Mysuru Deputy Commissioner’s (DC) Office. A meeting will be held with officials and district heads to move the present office to the new premises, said Mysuru District Minister S.T. Somashekar, who already has his office at the new Complex.  Interacting with reporters at Pathrakarthara Bhavan this morning, the Minister said that it was decided earlier that...

By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC Lalitha Mahal Palace Hotel is in the news again. The Chairman of Jungle Lodges and Resorts (JLR), in his news briefing, wanted to have a Centenary celebration of the building which was commissioned in 1921 by our then Maharaja for the stay of Viceroy  which  never materialised. Excellent news.   There is a lot of confusion on the land size of the Palace. I had got the land officially measured by a professional and it was about 40 acres and 24...

MCC is watching; Both Public and Govt. agencies will be penalised Mysore/Mysuru: The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Commissioner’s strict warning against road-cutters is taken with a pinch of salt with different agencies damaging the blacktop and concrete roads in the name of repair or laying new pipelines. MCC Commissioner Gurudatta Hegde’s warning came in the wake of complaints from citizens regarding unauthorised cutting of asphalted roads to lay underground power cables, water and UGD p...

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