HYDERABAD: The students union of University of Hyderabad has opposed the university's reported move to allocate 200 acres of university land to Care Foundation for setting up

a super-speciality hospital with a capacity of 1,000 beds.

In a statement here on Sunday, Mohd. Zikrullah Khan, general secretary, said the decision to set up a private health institution was being taken in haste. He said any institute to be set up in the university should be taken only after due consultation and discussion in the respective committees. The university was also planning to allocate land to establish an advanced institute of mathematics, statistics and computer sciences, National Institute of Animal Biotechnology (NIAB) and National Institute of Heath Education and Translation Research.

"Unless clear information is provided on the nature of their administrative functioning, students will oppose the idea to provide land to these institutes," he warned.

"We will certainly cooperate with steps which seek to bolster the academic and research environment of the campus and attempts which aim at rendering service to society at large," he said.

Students have decided to stage a protest at the Executive Council meeting being held on Monday to discuss the issue.

Meanwhile, CPI(M) Ranga Reddy district secretary D.G. Narasimha Rao has condemned the reported move of the varsity. In a statement issued here on Sunday, he said the Executive Council was likely to approve the move and appealed to all sections to oppose it. The Government's decisions on land acquisition pertaining to Outer Ring Road and SEZs had already met with widespread resistance, he noted.

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