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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IIT-Goa campus violence: Police file FIRs against protesters (Ld)
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Panaji, Jan 7 : Police in Goa on Thursday booked First Information Reports in connection with Wednesday evening s violence related to the construction of the IIT-Goa campus in North Goa s Melaulim village.
Several Congress leaders among local villagers have been accused of rioting, assaulting police officials and preventing government officials from discharging their duty, after violence erupted in Melaulim over the process of survey and demarcation of land allotted to the IIT authorities for setting up of the campus.