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Citizens draw up agenda for Mysore

MYSORE: Stakeholders and elected representatives held a meeting here on Tuesday to discuss issues regarding the comprehensive development of Mysore. The meeting convened by Parliamentary Secretary to the Chief Minister S.A. Ramdas was an exercise to elicit opinion and collate inputs from a cross-section of the public that will be submitted to the Chief Minister to be included in the budget.

Mr. Ramdas said a delegation of prominent citizens and stakeholders would meet the Chief Minister on Thursday and apprise him of the requirements in Mysore and seek adequate budgetary allocation. They would also meet officials from the Finance Department, he added.

The delegation would comprise stakeholders from the tourism industry, hotel industry, industries association and members of chamber and commerce, among others.

About 25 proposals were received in the meeting, including a proposal to create a permanent facility on the lines of Pragati Maidan in Delhi at the exhibition grounds. There was also a proposal for vesting the responsibility of maintaining PWD roads in the city to the Mysore City Corporation to eliminate dual control and jurisdiction over city roads.

V. Prakash, Director, Central Food Technological Research Institute, in a presentation on the Agenda for the City of Mysore for 2010-11, called for ensuring basic minimum facilities to farmers, cultivators and traders.

He said that providing basic facilities such as running water and proper drainage facilities was not much but yet nothing had been done.

Dr. Prakash called for improving the shandies and village market which supplied raw materials to Mysore and said it required planning and a little financial assistance.

He said that elected representatives should ensure that the city got fund for this and that work was taken up in the next four months.

Dr. Prakash called for launching a “Clean Mysore” programme with participation from every resident.

Industrialist R. Guru called for improved connectivity to Mysore and called for expediting the track doubling work between Mysore and Bangalore, commencing commercial operations at Mysore airport, declaring Mysore as a heritage city and establishing an Industrial Township Authority as the Tourism Development Authority.

Social activist Ramesh pointed out that funds should be allocated for improving tourism in Mysore and said that apart from spending money on parks and lawns across the city, the authorities should conceive a park on the lines of Lumbini Park in Hyderabad. He also sought funds for widening major arterial roads in Mysore.

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