Cabinet decision to upgrade MCC into Greater Mysuru City Corporation welcomed

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The Cabinet has projected  to make  the GMCC by including Hootagalli City Municipal Council (CMC), municipality  panchayats of Srirampura, Bogadi, Rammanahalli, and Kadakola, too  the gram panchayats of Chamundi Hills, Alanahalli, Siddalingapura, Dhanagalli, Ilvala, Beerihundi, Nagavala and Nadanahalli

The Cabinet has projected to make the GMCC by including Hootagalli City Municipal Council (CMC), municipality panchayats of Srirampura, Bogadi, Rammanahalli, and Kadakola, too the gram panchayats of Chamundi Hills, Alanahalli, Siddalingapura, Dhanagalli, Ilvala, Beerihundi, Nagavala and Nadanahalli | Photo Credit: M.A. Sriram

The caller determination by the State Cabinet to upgrade the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) into the Greater Mysuru City Corporation (GMCC) by including the areas falling nether the limits of municipality section bodies connected the outskirts of the metropolis into its ambit was welcomed by erstwhile Chairman of Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) H.V. Rajeev.

Addressing a property league successful Mysuru connected Saturday on with erstwhile Mayor B.L. Byrappa and others, Mr. Rajeev said the government’s determination to make a GMCC volition not lone assistance amended the roads, underground drainage facilities, roads and different infrastructure connected the recently developed layouts connected the outskirts of Mysuru, but besides fulfills the request of residents of respective layouts, who were opposed to go portion of the municipality section bodies connected the outskirts of the metropolis and alternatively sought merger with the MCC.

The Cabinet has projected to make the GMCC by including Hootagalli City Municipal Council (CMC), municipality panchayats of Srirampura, Bogadi, Rammanahalli, and Kadakola, too the gram panchayats of Chamundi Hills, Alanahalli, Siddalingapura, Dhanagalli, Ilvala, Beerihundi, Nagavala and Nadanahalli.

While MCC is presently dispersed crossed 88 quadrate kms, the country volition grow to 333.46 quadrate kms aft the enactment of GMCC. The combined colonisation of Mysuru city, Hootagalli CMC, Town Municipalities of Srirampura, Bogadi, Rammanahalli, and Kadakola, too the 8 gram panchayats, was 11,19,705 during the 2011 census, but the projected colonisation of the country successful 2025 is astir 14,16,671, Mr. Rajeev said.

Over the past 30 years, the areas connected the outskirts of MCC were developed by MUDA, assorted lodging co-operative societies, and backstage developers into residential layouts. MUDA, Mr. Rajeev said, was simply an approving authorization and was not liable for the attraction of the recently developed layouts by taking up drainage cleaning and roadworthy repairs oregon ensuring h2o proviso and streetlights. “As a result, these areas were not being maintained by immoderate authority,” helium pointed out.

Providing modern underground drainage systems, sewage attraction plants, and different civic infrastructure successful areas extracurricular the limits of MCC was intolerable owed to fragmented authorization and constricted fiscal resources of the respective municipality section bodies. Similarly, the improvement of connecting roads beyond the Outer Ring Road was besides not possible. “Once each these areas travel nether a azygous administrative body, semipermanent solutions go feasible. Hence, Greater Mysuru is simply a solution for these problems,” helium said.

Similarly, Mr. Rajeev pointed retired that untreated sewage is being released into the grounds successful galore smaller layouts, which leads to contamination of groundwater. The municipality section bodies extracurricular MCC limits lacked the required method capability, manpower, oregon fiscal resources to constructed sewage attraction plants earlier releasing sewage.

Also, owed to inadequate sanitation workers, segregation of discarded was besides suffering, helium said portion hoping that the enactment of GMCC volition code the issue.

The instauration of GMCC volition besides assistance make higher taxation gross for the government, Mr. Rajeev said.

Meanwhile, the erstwhile MUDA president besides referred to the funny concern successful which the residents of respective localities successful Ward 65 of MCC had precocious been brought nether the jurisdiction of Srirampura Town Panchayat. But the residents, who had obtained khatas and program approvals from the MCC refused to transportation their khatas to the municipality panchayat.

Similarly, the Residents Welfare Association of Vijayanagar Third Stage had sought to determination retired of the Hootagalli CMC limits and beryllium included nether MCC. The instauration of GMCC volition supply a solution for each these long-standing issues, Mr. Rajeev said.

Published - November 29, 2025 08:37 p.m. IST

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