Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan urged the Telangana government to stop auctioning 400 acres of land that falls in Kancha Gachibowli near the University of Hyderabad (UoH) campus. In a letter written to Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy on Tuesday, Pradhan urged the state government to carry out a mutual demarcation and mutation of the central university’s land as per earlier arrangements.
Pradhan also stated that the vision of an international education hub in Hyderabad should not be compromised because of the auction. Preserving the university’s surrounding environment and not allowing academic institutions to be disturbed by commercial development is what he noted.
The controversy grew more when BJP leaders in Telangana, including Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy, submitted a representation to Pradhan demanding his intervention against the state government’s annexation land plan. Finally, the land they had ceded from UoH to the Telangana government in 2003 was to be exchanged for new land allocation equivalent to that which had been ceded. Nevertheless, the Telangana government has not lived up to the fulfillment part of this agreement in demarcating the alternative land properly.
Pradhan feared that the ongoing auction process could result in ecological and institutional disruptions. Adjacent to the university, it is a critical biodiversity hotspot.” The move of the Telangana government to auction it has created huge anxiety and resentment amongst the students and faculty members,” he wrote.
The Telangana government had been urged by him to settle the matter immediately by stopping the auction and making sure that the land exchange, as agreed, had been completed. But now the matter has become a major question in the state, and political leaders and academic circles are paying close attention to the next stages.
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