‘Horticulture varsity not to be shut or merged’: N Chaluvarayaswamy

Bengaluru: Agriculture Minister N Chaluvarayaswamy assured the Council that the government would not shut down or merge the Bagalkot Horticulture University.

The debate was triggered by reports of recommendations reportedly made by the committee headed by retired chief secretary T M Vijay Bhaskar that agriculture & horticulture varsities be merged. “The panel will submit report after session. Only then will we discuss it. For now, it will neither be shut nor merged,” he said.