Mysore/Mysuru, Dec. 18 -- Mysuru Rakshana Vedike says Unity Mall would damage Mysore Palace's aesthetics

The Mysuru Rakshana Vedike has urged the State Government to reclaim the historic Doddakere Maidan, restore it as a full-fledged lake and shift the proposed Unity Mall to an alternative location in the city.

Vedike President M.K. Premkumar made this appeal while addressing reporters at Doddakere Maidan yesterday.

Premkumar said, Doddakere was never a man made tank but a naturally formed waterbody spread across 131 acres, fed by eight rain dependent feeder canals. "Even today, these canals exist. Rainwater flowing down from Chamundi Hill used to reach this lake through the Karanji Lake channel," he explained.

He demanded that the Go...