Mysuru, May 28 -- 'First priority will be to allot sites to genuine applicants who have been waiting for decades'

KAS Officer K.R. Rakshith took charge as the In-charge Commissioner of Mysuru Development Authority (MDA) from outgoing Commissioner A.N. Raghunandan at the MDA office on JLB Road here yesterday.

The Government on Monday had issued an order appointing Rakshith as Special Land Acquisition Officer (SLAO) of MDA concurrently holding charge as its in-charge Commissioner. Rakshith was earlier serving as Assistant Commissioner at Mysuru.

Rakshith, a KAS Officer of the 2014 batch, said that he would not belie the trust reposed in him by the Chief Minister, the Urban Development Minister and the District Minister and would try to b...