Mysore/Mysuru: With Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, who also holds Finance portfolio, likely to present the State budget in the first week of March, Chamaraja MLA L. Nagendra met the CM at Bengaluru on Thursday and appealed him to make a budgetary allocation of a total of Rs.135 crore for re-construction of dilapidated Lansdowne and Devaraja Market buildings in Mysuru.
In a memorandum submitted to the CM, Nagendra said that the over a century old Lansdowne and Devaraja Market buildings located in the heart of the city have turned dilapidated with the passage of time and there are plans to re-construct them while retaining all their heritage characteristics, as recommended by Technical Task Force Committees and subsequently approved by the MCC Council. Pointing out that Rs.37 crore for Lansdowne building and Rs.98 crore for Devaraja Market building was needed for their re-construction, the MLA said that though several representations seeking sanction of funds were submitted in the past, the Government is yet to release funds. As such, the CM should make budgetary allocation of a total of Rs.135 crore (Rs.98 crore for Devaraja Market and Rs. 37 crore for Lansdowne building), Nagendra said in the memorandum.
