A file photo of the Kittur Rani Channamma University.
This comes after the Forest Advisory Committee of the Union government dismisses State’s move to transfer forest land to the university The State government plans to set up Rani Channamma University (RCU) as a multi campus university, after the Union government rejected its request to regularise the transfer of forest land to the educational institution. The Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) of the Union government has dismissed the State government’s move to transfer 177 acres of forest land to RCU in Bhutramanahatti village on Belagavi- Kolhapur Road. It has asked the State government to find alternative sites for the university. This was because of the fundamental principle that forest land should not be used for non-forest purposes, the FAC noted.