India, April 3 -- Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan has urged the Telangana government to halt the land auction in Kancha Gachibowli near the University of Hyderabad (UoH) campus, and facilitate the amicable demarcation and mutation of the central university's land.

In a letter to Telangana chief minister Revanth Reddy on Tuesday, Pradhan emphasised that Hyderabad's development as an international education hub must not be compromised.

On Tuesday, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmakers from Telangana, including Union minister G Kishan Reddy, submitted a representation to Pradhan seeking intervention against the Telangana government's auction of 400 acres of land in Kancha Gachibowli.

Pradhan said UoH ceded approximately 400 a...