About 150 hectares with old eucalyptus and subabul will also be removed to create space for valuable varieties using wood. | PHOTO CREDIT: NAGARA GOPAL
The tension won the prof. Jayashankar Telangana Agriculture University (PJTAU) campus around midnight on Saturday, because students claimed that they had cleaned several acres using ground brains.
Student videos-athot with their voice and descriptions that spread on social media showed soil cleaning near the botanical garden in the area. They argued that the biodiversity of the native plant was removed, allegedly for the State Government festival “bathtub Mahotsavam” or a tree festival.
Main Minister A. Revanth Reddy together with other ministers, as they say, will participate in the program that will be held on Monday. Given that the reports of alleged axis and cleaning of vegetation began to orbit, the vice -president of PJtau Aldas Janaiah, who confirmed the participation of Mr. Reddy, published clarification of ongoing works.
In the note, he said that the campus is full of invasive weeds such as Lantana, Parthenium and Prosps Julioflora or Sarkar Thumm, except for the abundant growth of Eucalyptus, Subabul – do not leave a place for native tree species.
“The massive ride on the plantation on Monday by cleaning the areas with these trees and weeds is to revive traditional native plants. There are about 30 native trees, wild fruit and wild species and other bamboo varieties to revive the botanical garden,” said the note.
In addition, “about 150 hectares with old eucalyptus and subabul will also be removed to create space for valuable varieties.
According to the survey and list of trees carried out by Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority Authority-Music Forestry Wing in January 2025, the campus was divided into four blocks and proposed to remove 3,521 trees with intimation to DFO to remove 869 trees. Of these, 521 are Eucalyptus trees and 3000 are subabul trees. The same was approved for the auction together with the conditions and condition for the open auction, in the order of the director (research) M. Balama of 7 May.
Students who opposed midnight and saw the exchange with the police published on Sunday the clarification of the university and officials, they said they welcome the decision to improve the botanical garden as a “unit of natural resources”.
Published – 6 July 2025 17:24
