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Friday, May 28, 2004

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Inauguration of median put off

By Our Staff Correspondent

MYSORE, MAY 27 . The inauguration of the newly-laid median on the Vishwamanava Double Road in Kuvempungar has been postponed to Friday following protests by pro-Kannada organisations.

The protesters, who had gathered at the venue, alleged that the advertising agency had not adhered to the decisions taken at a meeting that agreed to display advertisements in Kannada and English prominently. They said that while Kannada had been ignored, English had been given prominence.

The Mayor, Modamani, and the Mysore City Corporation Commissioner, A.B. Ibrahim, then decided to inaugurate the median on Friday after the defects were rectified. H.S. Shankarlinge Gowda, (BJP) MLA, also participated in the protest.

Meanwhile, the Member of Mysore Agenda Task Force (MATF), Bapu Satyanarayana, in a letter to the Commissioner of Mysore Heritage Task Force, Vijay Bhaskar, has sought his intervention in the matter.

He has said that the situation seemed to have gone out of hand with the advertising agency erecting huge hoardings that masked the greenery of the median.

It became an ugly reminder of how mindless privatisation could destroy any semblance of order.

Mr. Sathyanarayana has criticised this and also a garish exhibition of commercialisation that had become a blot on the heritage of Mysore.

He said the citizens and politicians should act and get these hoardings dismantled before any more damage was done to the face of Mysore.

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