Overview
- The state issued an order canceling the 2025 transfer and returning about 5.8 acres at KSIC’s Bhyrapura filature campus to the Sericulture Department.
- Officials cited a joint inspection that found the site unfit for a stadium because it lies in the effluent flow zone and sits near boiler operations that pose air and safety risks.
- KSIC’s managing director objected in March, saying the filature supplies raw silk yarn and plans to add four automatic reeling machines that would need nearly one million litres of Kapila River water each day.
- The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board directed KSIC to build an effluent treatment plant at the campus, which the government said makes the land critical for wastewater handling and compliance.
- Environmental groups, local organisations, and farmers had protested the transfer, and the formal order ends uncertainty that lingered after a March Assembly statement dropping the stadium plan.