New Delhi: After the Centre recently declared the project site in Sanguem was not fit for the purpose, the Government of Goa has chosen to find another piece of land for the permanent Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) campus to be built in the coastal state. According to an article in The Print, there were two hurdles in the effort to establish the permanent campus.

Following residents' protests, the proposed IIT Goa campus project was relocated from Shel-Melavali hamlet in Sattari taluka in January of last year. The Center recently argued that the Cotarlim village location in Sanguem was "inadequate" for building the facility.

Pramod Sawant, the chief minister of Goa, stated: "The IIT Goa campus would definitely be established. We are looking for suitable land on which to build the facility. Since the Centre assigned Goa an IIT in 2014, the university has been operating out of a temporary site based on the Goa Engineering College (GEC) campus in Ponda. The residents in South Goa opposed the proposed IIT-Goa campus at Sanguem.

Approximately 60 kilometres from the intended site, in Panaji, demonstrations were also held. Additionally, South Goa District Collector Jyoti Kumarihad issued orders enforcing Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, which made it illegal to convene a group of five or more individuals within 200 metres of the site's demarcation in the Cotarli village panchayat with the intent to obstruct or delay the surveying and site-delineation procedures for the proposed IIT.

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