How many times we have seen freshly-asphalted road dug up repeatedly later to lay pipes for electricity, water or Underground Drainage (UGD) connections to new houses? Though the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) or Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) collects road-cutting charges from the owners of the buildings in most cases, the civic bodies seldom repairs the damaged surface and sub-structure of the road.
When the work on widening and reconstruction of the 80 ft. road, running for nearly a km between B and C Block in Vijayanagar 3rd Stage, is under way, the local Residents’ Welfare Association could not help but foresee a likely damage to the new road as no construction had been taken up on a total of 52 plots. So, they approached the area MLA G.T. Deve Gowda and Commissioner of MUDA Dinesh Kumar with a proposal for MUDA to lay the required underground pipelines for water, electricity and UGD before laying the bitumen surface or tarring of the road. The charges towards road cutting, material and labour incurred by the MUDA could be collected from the owners of the sites when they apply for an approval of their building plan.
