Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) is on track to become a Grade 1 civic body. MLA of Chamundeshwari Assembly, G.T. Deve Gowda, instructed officials to prepare all necessary data on properties, layouts, and civic details from Town Panchayats and Hootagalli City Municipal Council (CMC). The meeting was held on January 3, 2026, at the MCC Zone 3 office. The officials have one month to complete the comprehensive report. The State Cabinet has approved upgrading MCC by including Hootagalli CMC, Town Panchayats of Rammanahalli, Bogadi, Srirampura, Kadakola, and nearby gram panchayats. Mr. Gowda pointed out past civic issues like delays in khatas, excess money demands, and double taxation. He said the complaints have reduced after these areas were upgraded from gram panchayats to Town Panchayats and CMC. Now with the Grade 1 upgrade expected soon, officials must list details of government properties, schools, hospitals, drinking water, drainage, streetlights, and roads in these areas. This will help set up zonal offices for better administration. Officials also need to review private layouts approved by Mysuru Urban Development Authority that were handed over a year ago. They must identify pending works and provide solutions. Reports with maps should show khata statuses—how many issued and how many pending. While challenges will rise with the merger of outskirts into MCC, Mr. Gowda expressed confidence the setup of zonal offices will ease service delivery. Officials present were MCC Deputy Commissioners G.S. Somashekar and S. Manju, Executive Engineer R. Srinivas, Assistant Commissioner Sandeep, Development Officer Sathyamurthy, and Chief Officers of Town Panchayats H.M. Suresh, H.R. Deepa, Ravikeerthi, and S.M. Sujay Kumar.