Stakeholders have come out with region- and city-specific suggestions for the development of Mysuru under Karnataka Vision 2025.
The consultation that concluded on Saturday is part of eliciting public and stakeholders’ responses and ideas. These will be tweaked under the final document to be readied by December 2017.
Under the Urban Infrastructure and Smart City theme, emphasis is on the conservation of heritage structures of Mysuru besides the constitution of a separate body for the conduct of Dasara. This assumes significance in the light of the city having over 200 heritage buildings most of which lack protection in the absence of heritage regulations.
It also suggested that Srirangapatna, Nanjangud, Bannur and T. Narsipur be developed as satellite cities. Other suggestions included development of Hootagalli, Belwadi, Metagalli and Koorgalli on the lines of Electronics City in Bengaluru.
Other Mysuru-specific targets included development of 400 parks, rail underbridges, multi-storeyed parking facilities, development of areas abutting Outer Ring Road, encouraging green building concepts, conservation of lakes and linking them with drainage systems so as to prevent flooding, among others.
Under agriculture, there will be emphasis on persuading farmers to gradually shift from tobacco cultivation to horticulture. This is envisaged to bring nearly 84,000 hectares of land under horticulture by 2025.
Rural development
The suggestions of the group on agriculture and rural development was high on targets and it envisaged asphalting 4,795.88 km of rural roads in the district, construction of 88,155 individual toilets, providing skill development to 4.20 lakh families in rural areas, establishment of solid waste treatment plant in all the 263 gram panchayats, expanding e-governance to rural areas, and digitization of land records, among others.
Investment destination
Projecting Mysuru as the next best investment destination in the State, the creation of an industrial township authority to expedite industrial growth, linking Mysuru with Bengaluru with a high-speed rail network, enhancing air connectivity with the rest of India, converting all villages with a population above 2,000 into digital villages, opening a Police University in Mysuru, were other suggestions made.