India, March 3 -- Sir,

This refers to the news item titled "KSRTC Bannimantap bus stand work gains pace" in yesterday's Star of Mysore.

Constructing a Rs.129 crore major KSRTC bus terminus on a 24-acre land at Bannimantap is monumentally bad planning.

It has been cogently argued against and objected to, in the past few months, by various eminent members of Mysuru's public, but it appears that government is blind to reality and deaf to reason.

During the period of our iconic Dasara festival, when Mysuru gets packed with lakhs of visitors and vehicles, and many thousands arrive in and depart from Mysuru on a daily basis by buses, traffic jams and utter confusion will be inevitable. Worse, it will have no remedy, because this bus terminu...