MUDA’s ‘one-time measure’ civic works to benefit slew of layouts in Mysuru

Ministers Somashekar, Byrathi Basavaraj inspect some of the works

Civic amenities in scores of layouts of Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) are being shored up as a “one-time measure’’ with funding by the State government. This will benefit thousands of residents living in the MUDA-developed areas which had not seen any maintenance and upkeep since the last two years owing to a technical issue arising from a government notification. The State government in 2019 issued a circular as per which the responsibility of the MUDA was to develop layouts and did not entail maintenance which was the job of the local civic body. Hence the MUDA was hamstrung by the GO and was not authorised to release funds for routine maintenance of layouts. But not all MUDA-developed layouts have been transferred to the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) and infrastructure in some of these layouts began to wither in the absence of maintenance.