BRS moots declaring 400-acre Kancha Gachibowli land as Rohith Vemula Biodiversity Sanctuary
The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has requested the State government to declare the 400-acre Kancha Gachibowli land abutting the University of Hyderabad (UoH) as protected land and name it after Rohith Vemula on the occasion of International Day for Biological Diversity observed on May 22 every year.
Senior leader of the party and former MP B. Vinod Kumar asked the State government as well as the national authorities concerned to take a historic and symbolic step and declare the land which was once allotted to UoH as the Rohith Vemula Biodiversity Sanctuary.
The UoH was not only a premier academic institution but also one of the richest urban biodiversity zones in the country. Its sprawling 2,300-acre campus is a living ecological reserve and it is home to over 734 species of flowering plants, 10 species of mammals, 15 species of reptiles and more than 220 species of birds, the BRS leader said on Thursday.
The BRS leader also proposed forming an ecological management committee with representation from UoH students, faculty, ecologists and civil society, launching biodiversity education and justice-based awareness programmes within the sanctuary to engage students and citizens alike.
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