Two months ago, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) began the process to conserve and repair Dodda Gadiyara (Silver Jubilee Clock Tower) opposite Rangacharlu Memorial Town Hall. Following reports of cracks surfacing at the top portion of the Tower near the bell area, members of the District Heritage Committee and some officials of MCC collected samples of the construction materials, masonry samples, lime mortar and fallen iron pieces. Way back in 2005, a four-member Committee was formed to restore the heritage structure and the Committee had recommended many conservation measures. But the Committee’s suggestion was ignored and never implemented by the MCC. In this article, one of the Committee members M.S. Chandrasekhara Iyer, himself a Horologist, makes a fervent plea to save the structure for posterity. —Ed
Mysore/Mysuru: This attractive Silver Jubilee Clock Tower was installed just opposite Town Hall and close to the imposing Mysore Palace on Prabhavanama Samvatsara Shravana Masa Shukla Paksha Somavara (Monday) dated August 8, 1927, during the regime of Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar. Originally its height was only 72 ft. and after 1927 another 20 ft. was raised.
