[10] MCC's duties include; the orderly development of the city, zoning, building regulations, health, hygiene, licensing, trade and education, and quality of life issues.
[14] In partnership with Susthira, a non-governmental organization, MCC was due in 2020 to set up a plant to recycle construction waste and reserve 5 acres (0.020 km2) of land near Koppaluru village on H D Kote Road for the project.
The technicalities that earlier prohibited farmers from selling vegetables to the district Horticulture Producers Marketing and Processing Ltd (HOPCOMS) were resolved and MCC expanded the service to all 65 wards.
[16] In a bid to prevent a rush at the vegetable market at MG Road, MCC moved it to Dasara Exhibition Grounds.
To prevent the further spreading of SARS-Cov2, MCC decentralized the vegetable market to seven locations in the city and appointed officials to administer them.
Participants in the Small Loan Mela compulsorily carry their mobile number-linked Aadhaar card and bank passbook.
[19] Of the total 11 corporations in the State, MCC was in the first place in receiving applications and disbursing loans to eligible vendors.
One of the major projects undertaken by MUDA is the creation of an Outer Ring Road to ease traffic congestion.
[24] A section of the MCC-owned Heritage Lansdowne Building, which was constructed on November 19, 1892, collapsed due to heavy rain in August 2012, killing four people.
[26] In December 2020, Karnataka High Court stayed the demolition of Heritage buildings[27] MCC expanded its jurisdiction to include several villages on the city's outskirts such as Alanahalli, Srirampura, Chamundi Hill, Hootagalli and Hinkal due to presence of many industrial and commercial establishments in the erstwhile villages.
There is a long-pending proposal to expand the jurisdiction of MCC to include eight-gram panchayats on the outskirts of Mysore in the expanded civic body into a "Bruhat Mysuru Mahanagara Palike" or "Greater Mysore’ in line with Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike.
[39] MCC is proposing Mysore to be considered for a smart city project, which Davanagere, Belagavi, Tumakuru, Hubballi-Dharwad, Shivamogga, Mangalore, and Bengaluru are already a part of.
Under the scheme, the selected cities will receive ₹500 crore each from the central government and a matching grant from the state for several initiatives.
MCC had provided all of the details of its smart city mission parameters needed for inclusion in the scheme, including its mobilization of resources, internal resources gathering, service capabilities management, number of individual toilets per household, public participation in the development of the city, audited account details, use of government funds and self-financing capacity.
[46] To publicize the Swach Bharat ("A Cleanliness awareness drive"), MCC chose former cricketer and match referee Javagal Srinath.
Residents of Mysore elect four representatives to the Legislative assembly of Karnataka through the constituencies of Chamaraja, Krishnaraja, Narasimharaja and Chamundeshwari.