Mysuru: A quick fix solution to the battered and pothole-filled city roads and footpaths in the run-up to the Dasara festival is underway in many parts of the city, especially in the Central Business District. Patchworks and last-minute road and footpath works are a bane for this Heritage City and this routine is followed religiously by the official machinery and the political class every year.
All year through, the roads and footpaths are left neglected unattended and it is only during Dasara, the patchworks are taken up. Looking at the way how the works are carried out annually for some years, it is clear that there will be development in Mysuru only during Dasara and if not for Dasara, no development works will be taken up.
