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Mysore City Corporation to focus on green glory for Dasara

Friday, 30 August 2013 11:51 administrator
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The Times of India               30.08.2013 

Mysore City Corporation to focus on green glory for Dasara

MYSORE: It is that time of the year again when the Mysore City Corporation begins its beautifying projects. With Dasara fast approaching, the civic body is all set to enhance the green glory of the city. As more than 10 lakh visitors hit the tourist hub during the festival season, the MCC has selected certain parks, circles and roads to beautify.

Ornamental flowers and plants will be grown in major parks like Bannimantapa Park, Thataiah Park, Taluk office Road Park, Milad Bagh, Tilaknagara Park, Puthali Park, parks towards the east and west of Palace, Dr Rajkumar Park, Nishat Bagh (Kuppanna Park), Gandhivana Park, Cheluvamba Park, Javaregowda Park and Ananthaswamy Park.

MCC commissioner P G Ramesh said all the 175 parks would be beautified by renovating, painting, cleaning regularly and growing plants. Depending on the space of each park, they will grow the plants, he said. "We are implementing the same steps we took last year to beautify parks. The parks are maintained by the horticulture department and all the parks will be illuminated during Dasara festival," he stated.

Parks will be illuminated temporarily like the major circles across city like Ekalavya Circle, Babu Jagjivan Ram Circle (Railway station circle), Fountain Circle, N Madhav Rao Circle (Agrahara circle), he stated.

There are even plans to purchase short-term ornamental plants for growing them at Milad Bagh, Tilaknagar Park, Nehru Park, Puthali Park, Veeranagere Park and Anantaswamy Park, he added.

 

Dasara: Plans to enhance Mysore's green look

Monday, 26 August 2013 09:48 administrator
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Deccan Herald          26.08.2013

Dasara: Plans to enhance Mysore's green look

Come Dasara, Mysore will be transformed into a tinsel world with the Mysore City Corporation (MCC) charting out a series of plans to enhance the beauty of the City of Palaces.

The MCC has started the exercise on improving the greenery of the existing parks, besides repairing and illuminating select parks and buildings with temporary lighting arrangements, at an estimated cost of Rs 25 lakh.

According to MCC Commissioner P G Ramesh, it has been decided to enhance the beauty of 14 parks on Mysore-Bangalore road alone, besides Milad Bagh Park on Ashoka Road, Tilak Nagar Park, Putthali Park, parks on either side of Amba Vilas Palace, Basaveshwara Park, Dr Rajkumar Park, Kuppanna Park, Gandhivana Park, Cheluvamba Park, Javare Gowda Park, Mysore Anantha Swamy Park, park at MCC and other localities.

Short-term plants such as  ‘Antarenum’, ‘Felocia’, ‘Marigold’, ‘Alalyssum’, ‘China Aster’, ‘Gillaradya’ and  others, to name a few among several species, will be raised at these parks. Exclusive nursery beds will be created at the parks, to nurture the saplings before planting the same.

Apart from this, same species of potted plants will be arranged at select traffic islands, giving thrust to the circles on jamboo savari route -- Chamarajendra Wadiyar Circle, K R 
Circle, Fountain Circle and Millenium Circle (LIC).

Besides, parks located in the heart of the city such as Hardinge Circle, Ramaswamy, Five Lights, Basaveshwara, Dr B R Ambedkar, Mahaveer and Mahatma Gandhi among others will also be decorated with potted plants.

The parks identified for renovation works and painting are: parks on Mysore-Bangalore road, Banni Mantap, Taluk Office road, Milad Park, Tilak Nagar, Putthali, Rose Garden, CFTRI, Curzon Park-III, Siddiqui Nagar, Kuppanna Garden, Siddappaji, Veerangere among others.

Similar works will be taken up at Thathaiah Park (opposite KSRTC city bus stand), Dr Rajkumar Park, Freedom Fighter’s Memorial Park, Gandhi Vana Park, Al Kabir School, Kantharaja Park, Cheluvamba Park, Javare Gowda Park, Salumarada Thimmakka Park and others. Besides, main roads in the city like, Purandara Dasa, Palace, Bangalore-Nilgiri, Albert Victor, Sayyaji Rao and Irwin will be re-asphalted.
 

Municipal Corporation to promote distribution of clay Ganesh idols

Friday, 23 August 2013 10:48 administrator
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The New Indian Express               23.08.2013

Municipal Corporation to promote distribution of clay Ganesh idols

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) will be providing open spaces for making and selling/distributing clay Ganesh idols, commissioner MT Krishna Babu has said.

The commissioner held a meeting with NGOs for promoting use of clay Ganesh idols, at the GHMC head office on Thursday. 

The GHMC has taken up the initiative to protect the environment from hazardous chemicals used for Ganesh idols made of plaster of Paris.

The GHMC will be providing mud/clay blocks to schools that come forward to join the clay Ganesh drive. GHMC will give permission to NGOs 15 days prior to Ganesh festival for setting up clay idol stalls. The commissioner has instructed all deputy commissioners to coordinate with the NGOs for using parks for making clay Ganesh idols.

The GHMC will be coordinating with the BC Corporation and banks for loans to NGOs on subsidy in this connection.

The government is spending around `300 crore for regeneration of Hussainsagar and desilting is being taken up, the commissioner said. He opined schools have to promote the concept and district collectors will be urged to coordinate with school managements to create awareness to protect the environment.

Assistant medical officers will coordinate with schools for the distribution of clay and other materials to them.

The commissioner said the height of Ganesh idols is a sensitive issue and the government will take a proper decision in future.

 
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