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Clean Mysuru Dasara-2025 MCC Commr. chairs meeting of stake holders; appeals for maintaining cleanliness in city (SOM Aug 21, 2025) Mysore/Mysuru: With a month left for this year’s Dasara festival to begin on Sept. 22, Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Commissioner Shaikh Tanveer Asif chaired a meeting of stakeholders including civic groups, NGOs, Associations among others at MCC Zone-3 office at Sharadadevinagar here yesterday. The meeting discussed about maintaining cleanliness, repairing potholes, clearing unauthorised street vendors, banning the use of plastic among others during the 11-day Dasara, which concludes on Oct. 2 with Jumboo Savari procession.
The stakeholders present at the meeting, suggested that apart from prioritising cleanliness during Dasara, emphasis should also be laid on creating awareness among the public to maintain cleanliness. They also mentioned about street vendors encroaching footpaths on the main thoroughfares of the city, thus marring the visual look of the city. Majority of foreign tourists want to explore the city by going around on foot. However, with not much space to walk around, with road side vendors occupying every bit of footpaths and roads, they only return with unsavoury memories, opined the stakeholders demanding the authorities to evict unauthorised street vendors. Meanwhile, the members of Yuva Brigade extended their support, by offering to work as volunteers stating that, more youngsters were ready to join them during the Dasara celebrations. One of the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) officials suggested that the posters of women Pourakarmikas with a message to maintain cleanliness should be placed at different locations to create awareness among the visitors. Don’t waste food The Mysuru City Corporation is also planning to launch a digital campaign, to send a strong message against wasting food, especially at the Dasara Food Mela. The digital boards will be installed at places, to create awareness among the public and the tourists against the habit of leftover. In an effort to clear dry waste generated in the city, the MCC is signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a private
entity, for which volunteers have come forward to collect the solid waste. Impose fine to stop plastic menace Bhamy V. Shenoy, Founding Working President of Mysore Grahakara Parishat (MGP) suggested that, certified activists should be authorised to impose fine of not less than Rs. 500 for littering waste and added that such citizens can be provided an incentive of Rs. 50 to Rs. 100, as a token of gesture. He also said, MCC should consider requesting schools which took part in Clean Mysuru City Campaign, to be more vigilant to prevent people from littering waste. Bhamy Shenoy suggested MCC to develop an App where students and activists can upload photos and videos of people littering waste on the streets. Later, MCC Commissioner Shaikh Tanveer Asif released ‘Clean Dasara ‘posters. He also suggested the officials present at the meeting, to ensure the waste generated on different venues during Dasara be cleared immediately to keep the environ clean. MCC Deputy Commissioner Dasegowda, MCC Health Officer Dr. D.G. Nagaraj, Zonal Commissioner T.S. Satyamurthy and members of various NGOs and Associations were present. Rs. 9 crore to fix potholes The MCC Commissioner, reacting to one of the suggestions by the participants to ensure Mysuru was free of potholes before Dasara, said tender has been already awarded to a contractor to fill up the potholes.
“However, with city receiving continuous rainfall for the past three months, the works on filling up the potholes have slowed down. With a month left for this year’s Dasara to start, the contractor has been strictly ordered to complete the works at the earliest, for which Rs. 9 crore has been kept aside,” he said. MCC seeks public cooperation for a clean and green Mysuru during Dasara Hindu August 20, 2025 MCC authorities said that they wish to project Mysuru’s status as one of the cleanest cities in India during the Dasara and also vest the people with the responsibility of not littering the city.
The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) on Wednesday convened a meeting of civic groups, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and citizen activists to chalk out measures for Swacch Dasara. Chaired by MCC Commissioner Shaikh Tanveer Asif, the meeting focused on strategies to handle the surge of visitors and ensure strict waste management across the city. It was also stressed that the initiative should not be confined to the festival but serve as a step toward a long-term culture of civic discipline. The MCC Commissioner said they envisage people’s movement to keep Mysuru clean and green during and after Dasara as well. The meeting drew representatives from civic groups, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), educational institutions and citizen activists, who stressed that cleanliness should not remain a one-off event but evolve into a sustained campaign. The MCC authorities said they wish to project Mysuru’s status as one of the cleanest cities in India during the Dasara, and also vest the people with the responsibility of not littering the city. ”My Waste My Responsibility” is one of the concepts that will be publicised and propagated among the citizens while tourists will be impressed to help maintain Mysuru clean and green by not littering, etc. The Commissioner said Swachh Dasara initiatives include building a strong volunteer base for citizen-led clean-up drive and
to showcase Mysuru as a national model for clean and sustainable festivals. The authorities said the MCC wants to protect the city’s heritage and reputation during peak tourism season, and wish to combine festive celebrations with civic responsibility. Among the key activities planned by the MCC include round the clock cleanliness, deployment of extra manpower and vehicles across all zones, continuous monitoring to ensure clean streets, public spaces and tourist areas, and use of IEC campaigns against littering. MCC also plans to display daily waste generated figures on digital boards across the city during Dasara apart from launching an initiative to transform waste materials into creative art installations. Mysore Grahakara Parishat (MGP), one of the organisations which submitted a detailed plan of action, said focus must be on preventing littering rather than merely cleaning up after it. MGP said schools that had earlier participated in the ‘Clean Mysuru City’ campaign should be roped in again, with the Department of Public Instruction urging principals to display posters and assign teachers to motivate children. MGP also recommended that MCC develop a mobile app on the lines of the ;Public Eye’ traffic initiative, where students and activists can upload photos of people littering. Incentives and prizes could be introduced to encourage such vigilance, it said. The MCC urged stakeholders to view cleanliness as a civic responsibility and not just a Dasara-time obligation. The meeting
was attended by senior officials of MCC, NGOs, educational institutions, social service organisations, etc., apart from representatives from trade and commerce associations. Mysuru Set For First-Ever Tree Census, MoU Signed Star Of Mysuru Sep 17, 2025 Mysore/Mysuru: Following the successful implementation of the Tree Census in Mangaluru under the leadership of Dr. Smitha Hegde from the Nitte University Centre for Science Education and Research (NUCSER), a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on Sunday to launch a similar initiative in Mysuru. The MoU was formalised between Mysore Grahakara Parishat (MGP) and heads of several local organisations, marking the beginning of the first-of-its-kind Mysuru Tree Census Project.