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One must have faced a viral video where a group of peacocks can be heard crying. The video shared the video on social media amidst the nebisense, claiming that the bulldozer surprised trees spread over 400 acres of land in Kanchibovali forest area of Telangana near Hyderabad Central University Campus.
As the case came to light, many students from Hyderabad Central University (HCU) staged a protest. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court took cognizance of the Felting of trees in a forest area in Kancha Gachibovali. The issue was also raised in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.
What is controversy?
The line associated with Kancha Gachibovali can be detected in 2003 under the tenure of former United Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu.
Recently, several reports have claimed that 400 acres of land near Kanch Gachibovali area in Hyderabad was surprised to set up an IT park. According to PTI, the Telangana government has planned to develop IT infrastructure and others on 400 acres of land in Kanch Gachibovli.
The UOHSU leader quoted the news agency PTI, saying that Telangana State Industrial Infrastructure Corporation Limited recently announced a 400 -acre land auction at Kancha Gachibovli.
The UOHSU leader said that this would cause loss of biodiversity of Hyderabad along with the university land.
Mint could not verify these claims independently.
The land allegedly includes mushroom rock area inside the University of Hyderabad near its eastern campus.
Land Ownership: ‘No Forest Land’
The Congress -led Telangana government says that the land has not been notified as forest land and is in fact, revenue land.
According to PTI, the government says that the land parcel was it and not from diversity. However, the UOH Registrar issued a statement stating that unlike the government’s claim, the limit of the disputed land in the question was finalized.
Meanwhile, Telangana Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (TGIIC) said earlier this week that it had proved its ownership of land in court and UOH (a central university) does not own any land in land parcels in question.
“The dispute, if any, is built on the ownership of the land, the court will be contempt,” stating that the revenue records clearly stated that the land is not forest land.
Is this university land or government land?
Another major issue is demarcation between Kanch Gachibovi and the University of Hyderabad.
What does Telangana government say
TGIIC said that with the consent of Hyderabad Registrar University, a survey of land was conducted in July 2024 in the presence of university officials to identify boundaries.
“The officials finalized the boundaries on the same day,” TGIIC said according to PTI.
According to the news minutes, the government said that the revenue officials and TGIIC had ensured that in the presence of UOH officials, the revenue officials conducted a survey to ensure that an inch of land of the university was not touched.
UOH response
However, UOH said that no survey was conducted in July 2024 by the revenue officials in the campus to demarcate 400 acres of land launched by the state government in 2006.
“The only action so far has been the initial inspection of the land topography,” UOH Registrar Devesh Nigam said in a statement.
The university also denied the government statement that it had agreed to demarcate such land. The Registrar said that he had requested the state government to clearly demarcate the land related to the university and also conserve biodiversity in the disputed area.
Competitioning the university claims, official sources told PTI that there are documents that say that the land in Kancha Gachibovli has been handed over to the state government in 2004.
The UOH claims that in 1975, the United Andhra Pradesh government allotted them 2,324 acres, but the Telangana High Court mentioned in 2022 that no official documents are available to confirm the transfer.
News minutes reported that Kancha in Gachibovali refers to the ‘Kancha’ ‘unproductive land’, which argues the state that the revenue is the revenue land as soon as possible.
Student protest
The union of the students of Hyderabad held a protest in March after notices the deployment of police and economy on land in March, after which more than 50 students were detained and later released.
According to police, when TGIIC started development work on the site on March 30, according to a government order, a group of UOH people and others also gathered at the site and tried to stop the work from “forcibly”. He “attacked” with sticks and stones and two persons in this regard and two persons were arrested.
Protests: What is the demand of protesters?
The protesting students demanded a written assurance that the land would be formally registered under the university.
University students demanded the Telangana government to stop the auction reported. He demanded to withdraw police personnel from the campus and remove the earth-moving machinery. The students also condemned the “cruel police cracks” on peaceful protesters.
The union of the students of Hyderabad and other unions and allied parties began an indefinite protest and announced the boycott of classes from 1 April. They are opposing the proposal to develop on land parcels on the basis of environmental protection.
In a joint statement, unions of UOHSU and other students accused the university administration of “betrayal” students for the state government, which ended the university in Kancha Gachibovali on 400 acres for the state government.
The first year IMA Hindi student at Hyderabad University started a hunger strike at the main gate of the university-the first report was reported to protest against the alleged destruction of the forest cover in Kancha Gachibovali in the south of the university.
Politician, celebs response
Rajya Sabha MP Ravi Chandra Vadirji raised the issue in the upper house on Thursday. He alleged that the land was cleaned using “JCB” at night. He said that a “factual” report has been given to the Ministry of Environment and a notice has been issued to the Chief Secretary of the state.
Meanwhile, BJP’s Bengaluru MP also released in the Lok Sabha. He posted a video from his speech on X in early Friday and captioned it, “Congress’s environmental offenses in Karnataka and Telangana have come to Bandipura and Kancha Gachibovali at the cost of permanent loss to ecology and biodiversity …”
Bollywood actor Dia Mirza also gave a voice to this concern, saying, “Students are raising their voice for the future, where nature thrives. The forest, not the park, gives young people a chance in a permanent tomorrow. ‘Development’ is ‘development’ at the cost of biodiversity. Gachibovli, save Kancha forest in Hydbad.”
Currently, the Telangana High Court has two public interest cases (PILs) against the state government. The first PIL was filed by the NGO Vat Foundation, requesting the High Court to announce the transfer of land as ‘arbitrary and illegal’ to TGIIC.
The second anklet filed by the retired Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) scientist Babu Rao Kalpala, the second anklet, demanded a court to declare the state’s action for violating 400 acres of 400 acres of land issued by the Revenue Department for violating the illegal and forest protection act, 1980, the news minute reported.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court ordered to stop all types of developmental activities done in the Kancha Gachibovali region in Hyderabad, there was a shock over massive failing of trees in hundreds of acres of land.
Taking the cognizance of the Felting of the trees, the Supreme Court stopped the decline of trees on the site and warned the Chief Secretary of its order that it had not been complied with.
The Chief Secretary of the state was directed to ensure that there was no failing up to further orders.
Meanwhile, on Thursday 3 April, the Telangana High Court postponed the Kancha Gachibovali Tree-Failing case on 7 April, giving an extension for the interim order already.
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