4-member panel to take call on new IIT Goa campus site; says Chief Minister

The Goa Government last week had announced that the IIT campus, which was proposed to set up at Shel-Melaulim village in Sattari taluka of North Goa district, will be shifted to another part of the coastal state.

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has said that the government will set up a four-member committee to decide on a new location for the construction of the proposed IIT campus in the state. He made the announcement days after he dropped the plan to construct the Indian Institute of Technology campus proposed at Melaulim, around 50 km from the state capital Panaji.

Bowing to public pressure, the Goa government last week announced that the IIT campus, which was proposed to set up at Shel-Melaulim village in Sattari taluka of North Goa district, will be shifted to another part of the coastal state.

The Goa Chief Minister, while speaking to reporters on Monday, said that the state government is all set to establish an IIT campus in the state and has not yet finalised a site for the project.

"We will constitute a four-member committee which will go through various sites available for the proposed IIT campus," he said without divulging any further details.

"We will see the land options available for the project. We don't want a similar problem to recur when we finalise a new site," he said, referring to protests by residents of the Shel-Melaulim village earlier this month.

The CM said his government's 'Swayampoorna Goa' scheme is taking people towards a "self-sufficient lifestyle".

At present, IIT Goa is functioning from a temporary campus at the Goa Engineering College. Two sites previously identified by the state government, in Canacona and Sanguem sub-districts, for setting up of a permanent campus for IIT were also scrapped on account of protests.

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