IIT Goa project to come up, will discuss protests, says CM
Press Trust of India | January 4, 2021 | 11:15 AM IST | 1 min read
The protest from local residents is ongoing for the past four months against the project.
NEW DELHI: The proposed Indian Institute of Technology campus in Sattari taluka in Goa will come up despite protests from local residents and all their demands will be discussed, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said on Sunday.
He said he had toured the site in Shel-Maulim where the IIT is proposed to come up. "We are ready to discuss the demands of the locals. The project has not been scrapped. Formalities for construction are going on," the CM said, who also added a police outpost was coming up in the village as part of the IIT project.
People in the area have been protesting at the site over the past four months against the project and stalling work, officials said.
Also read:
-
IITs, NITs to begin offering engineering courses in mother tongue: Edu Ministry
- IIT Kanpur starts MTech, MS, dual-degree courses in cybersecurity
Write to us at news@careers360.com.
Follow us for the latest education news on colleges and universities, admission, courses, exams, research, education policies, study abroad and more..
To get in touch, write to us at news@careers360.com.
Featured News
]- Missing labs, teachers, entire colleges – why SRTMU Nanded cracked down on BSc admissions
- Karnataka Public Schools: Rs 1,742-crore ADB boost for 500 govt institutes targets 1 million students
- IIM Amritsar wants to build ‘distinct identity’ in MBA education, NIRF doesn’t capture full picture: Director
- ‘Why change what’s working?’: Opposition to Akshaya Patra in West Bengal goes beyond eggs in mid-day meals
- SCERT, DIET vacancies as high as 50% in many states; Haryana, MP, Maharashtra top list, reveals PAB meet
- SNU Chennai VC: Mechanical, civil, chemical engineering still deliver; demand for BTech cybersecurity on rise
- Delhi University’s MAMC, UCMS draw NEET toppers but offer dead computers, lagging wi-fi, and delayed degrees
- ‘Bureaucratic hurdle’: KCET rank list not updated after CBSE re-evaluation, affects admission, says student
- How Bihar Engineering University is powering through violence, floods, placement woes
- UK, US opportunities shrink but 1.2 lakh Indian MBBS still lost to them; Australia, Germany, Middle East gain