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Get CBSE centre out of Bangalore University campus: Green activists see red over 15-acre allotment

Bengaluru's 100 acres of bio-park is at risk as the Education Ministry proposed a 15-acre CBSE centre in Bengaluru University campus

Environmental activists are up in arms against the Education Ministry for proposing allotment of 15 acres for a CBSE centre at the bio-park premises at Bengaluru and want the project to be shifted out.
Already 100 acres of bio-park (Sector one) had been created in 2001 and it has 600 species of endangered species trees, most of which have anti-viral properties. There are 148 species of butterfly and 149 species of birds. There are hundreds of peacocks and black-naped hare in this biodiverse landscape.
 
Vice-chancellor of Bangalore University, Venugopal KR has greenlighted the CBSE project.