MCC checking records to ascertain if KRS Road named as Princess Road
The Hindu
MCC examines records to determine if KRS Road in Mysuru was ever named Princess Road, considering Siddaramaiah Arogya Marg.
Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) is in the process of examining its records to ascertain if KRS Road in Mysuru which is proposed to be named after Chief Minister Siddaramaiah had ever been named as Princess Road.
Speaking after receiving a representation from a delegation of Congress leaders pressing for naming a stretch of KRS road from Lakshmi Venkataramanaswamy Temple to Outer Ring Road as ‘Siddaramaiah Arogya Marg’ in recognition of the Chief Minister’s contribution to the development of healthcare institutions on the road, MCC Commissioner Ashaad-ur-Rahman Sharief said the civic body authorities had examined records from 1999 to 2024, but had not come across any evidence of the stretch named as Princess Road.
However, the staff was in the process of examining records from 1964 till 1999 to ascertain if the road had been named as Princess Road.
As the records were quite voluminous, Mr. Sharief said the process was taking time. However, more than half of the records had already been examined, he said while expressing confidence that the entire process will be completed in two or three days.
The MCC’s exercise comes in the wake of claims by Mysuru MP Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar and many other BJP leaders that the road has already been named as Princess road after Princess Krishnajammanni in whose memory the PKTB sanatorium had been set up on the stretch during the reign of the Maharajas.
Meanwhile, Mr. Sharief said Deputy Commissioner Lakshmikanth Reddy had forwarded to him the representation submitted by Chamaraja MLA Harish Gowda to name the road after Mr. Siddaramaiah for necessary action as per law.
He said the MCC authorities had already checked if any road or structure in Mysuru had been named after Mr. Siddaramaiah and the authorities of all the nine zonal offices of MCC had replied that no road or structure had been named after the Chief Minister in the city so far.
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