Mysore/Mysuru, Aug. 20 -- With the countdown for the famed Dasara celebrations in Mysuru having begun, Chamundeshwari MLA G.T. Devegowda (GTD) has urged the Government to provide basic amenities in slums of his Constituency before Dasara.

Speaking during the ongoing Monsoon Assembly Session at Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru on Monday, GTD said that there are 9 slums coming under Chamundeshwari Assembly segment which he represents.

Pointing out that these slums are in Hanchya, Sathagalli, Roopanagar, Mandakalli, Kuppalur, Ramabainagar, Rajivnagar, Ekalavyanagar and Kesare localities, he said that the residents of slums were living in deplorable conditions in the absence of even basic civic amenities.

"I wrote a letter to Chief Minister Sid...