MCC to host solar-powered livelihood workshop for women, specially-abled on Friday

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Regional commissioner Nitesh Patil, MCC commissioner Sheikh Tanveer Asif, and others releasing posters for the Swachh Mysuru Road Show successful  Mysuru connected  Wednesday.

Regional commissioner Nitesh Patil, MCC commissioner Sheikh Tanveer Asif, and others releasing posters for the Swachh Mysuru Road Show successful Mysuru connected Wednesday. | Photo Credit: M.A. Sriram

In a bid to amended livelihood opportunities for women and specially-abled persons, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) volition organise a solar-supported livelihood store and accumulation connected Friday astatine 9.30 a.m. astatine Rangacharlu Memorial Hall (Town Hall).

Regional commissioner Nitesh Patil announced this astatine the MCC bureau auditorium connected Wednesday, portion releasing posters for the store arsenic good arsenic for the upcoming Swachh Mysuru Road Show.

He said that 5% of the MCC’s funds are earmarked for the payment of specially-abled persons and stressed that the allocation should beryllium efficaciously utilised to supply skill-based grooming that ensures sustainable livelihoods.

The programme connected Friday is being organised successful collaboration with the SELCO Foundation.

Participants volition beryllium trained successful the usage of solar-powered cultivation equipment, livestock absorption machinery, small-scale endeavor tools and accumulation units, enabling them to instrumentality up self-employment ventures.

Officials said beneficiaries would besides beryllium assisted successful securing slope loans and subsidies to motorboat their enterprises. Post-training monitoring volition beryllium undertaken to guarantee fiscal stableness and promote that others opt for skill-based initiatives.

Road show

The MCC volition besides organise a Swachh Mysuru Road Show connected Sunday from the Mysore palace premises to the Oval grounds nether the taxable ‘Swachh Mysuru nanninda prarambha’ (Clean Mysuru begins with me).

The Chief Minister is expected to beryllium invited to inaugurate the event. Environmental organisations and civic groups are being encouraged to enactment successful ample numbers.

MCC commissioner Shaikh Tanveer Asif said the roadworthy amusement volition diagnostic a vintage car rally, a women’s motorcycle rally successful presumption of International Women’s Day, a rhythm rally, mounted constabulary teams with horses, tongas and different groups.

At the Oval grounds, unrecorded demonstrations volition beryllium held connected recycling operation and demolition discarded into utile products, and connected technological absorption of e-waste, integrative and biomedical discarded to make nationalist consciousness astir sustainable discarded absorption practices.

MCC lawman commissioner Veena, Mysuru Chamber of Commerce and Industry president K.B. Lingaraju, Clean Foundation Mysuru manager Leela Venkatesh, SELCO Foundation typical Prakash Meti and others were present.

Published - March 04, 2026 07:04 p.m. IST

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