mysuru in a bid to provide precise and standardised information to tourists visiting the mysuru palace its caretakers have launched a weeklong training programme for selected tourist guides in the city from mondayyaduveer krishnadatta chamaraja wadiyar scion of mysuru royal family inaugurated the training programme at the mysuru palace board office on mondaythe training being organised by the mysuru palace board in association with karnataka state open university ksou includes both theory and practical sessions by experts in the field the syllabus has been designed by ksouguides would be taught in the political history of wadiyars of mysuru which includes mythology palace legends early king raja wadiyar the story of mysuru palace temples within its precincts performing arts and cultural activities places in and around mysuru and rules palace board deputy director ts subramanya told toi that the board has taken the decision to provide training to tourist guides as the information they provide to visiting tourists is significant a tourist would believe the information given by them is true and accurate and he may spread the same information to people in known circles he saiddr shalvapille iyengar head of the department of ancient history and archaeology ksou prepared a syllabus for the training programme following a request from the palace board perhaps this is the first of its kind effort to train the guides for a particular tourist spot in india guides in london museum are trained and on similar lines about 20 tourist guides will be trained about palace historythe weeklong training will definitely help visitors as every guide will provide uniform and accurate information to the visitors of the palace which attracts the highest number of visitors the department head statedover a dozen heritage experts and historians including nanjaraja urs and ns rangaraju will educate guides during the sessions ksou vc s vidyashankar was present