In yet another assault on the last remaining green spaces of Bengaluru, a part of the green space inside Bangalore University’s Jnanabharathi is being sacrificed to make way for two new buildings. This after 17 acre of the bio-park has been allocated for University of Yogic Sciences and to CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) to build a Centre for the organization in south India. 

Activists, students, professors and neighborhood walkers are unhappy after authorities greenlighted the two projects, especially given it is also one of the last few biodiversity-rich college campuses that are left in India. They have questioned why vacant government land could not be used for the same purpose.

Incidentally, the work has already started in the first of the 14 additional patches of the park.

Now its our turn to ask the Chancelor of Bangalore University to use other vacant government land by signing this petition.