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Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant
In the face of increasing protests by villagers against the proposed IIT-Goa campus at Melaulim village in North Goa, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Friday announced the relocation of the project elsewhere in the coastal state. Sawant, however, said that the new location had not been identified yet. This government listens to the voice of the people. Therefore, our government has decided to shift the project from Sattari to another location in Goa. We will inform the IIT officials today, Sawant told the media at his official residence here. Melaulim is located in the Sattari sub-district.
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Taking a U-turn on the IIT-Goa campus project, state Health Minister Vishwajit Rane on Tuesday urged the Chief Minister to withdraw the project from his Valpoi Assembly constituency in North Goa in view of public protests. Rane, who earlier repeatedly insisted on going ahead with the construction of the Indian Institute of Technology-Goa campus at Melaulim village at any cost , has now cited popular sentiments against the project for his about-turn. I have written to CM Pramod Sawant that I do not want an IIT in my constituency. I have taken this decision in the people s interest. the people s sentiments are against the IIT, Rane said in a video message on the social media.
Political fissures appear to have developed in the Goa cabinet over the construction of a much-delayed IIT-Goa campus in North Goa s Valpoi assembly constituency, even as tremors of an old rivalry between Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and Health .
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