Dr Bhangya Bhukya, president of University of Hyderabad Teachers’ Association has said for the recent issue of the Kancha Gachibowli’s 400 acres of biodiversity land adjacent to the University of Hyderabad, on behalf of the University of Hyderabad Teachers Association (UHTA), we thank Vata Foundation, Human Rights Forum, Civil Society, ecologists, students, teachers and all others, who opposed the auction of the land as well as the deforestation by the State Government. 

We are grateful to all our friends who have been fighting inside and outside the High Court and the Supreme Court for biodiversity land.

“We have the following demands of the Telangana State Government. Withdraw the police force from the University of Hyderabad (UoH) campus immediately; Drop all the recent and Rohit Vemula incident cases against the UoH students; Register the whole land given to the University of Hyderabad, that is, 2300 acres, including the 400 acres of land in legal controversy, on the name of the UoH; identify and declare biodiverse heritage zones in the entire University land.  The biodiverse heritage zones must remain untouched and it must remain as a natural shrub forest of the Deccan region. 

Further, we demand that the management of these biodiverse heritage zones must lie only within the UoH, that is teachers, students and stakeholders of the UoH community and build a continuous boundary wall wherever it is discontinued for the entire UoH land, said Dr Bhangya Bhukya, president of University of Hyderabad Teachers’ Association.