Second IISc campus will come up in Karnataka: CM

The proposed second campus of Indian Institute of Science will come up in Chitradurga District in Karnataka as planned, Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa said today.

The proposed second campus of Indian Institute of Science will come up in Chitradurga District in Karnataka as planned, Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa said on Monday.

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"The IISC campus is very much coming up in Chitradurga. The district administration has already granted nearly 2,000 acres (at Kudapur village in the district) for it," he said on the sidelines of a Police Investiture Ceremony.

He was denying recent media reports that the proposed campus of the Bangalore-based premier institute was being shifted to Andhra Pradesh.