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Controversy over IITs location in AP

Controversy over IITs location in AP

After many years of effort by successive governments in Andhra Pradesh, the state will finally get an Indian Institute of Technology. But the choice of location for the IIT has stumped many.

The prestigious Indian Institute of Technology will come up in Andhra Pradesh on 600 acres of land near Patancheru in Medak district, near Hyderabad.

Patancheru is infamous as the most polluted place in the state. Unregulated industrialization over the last two decades has polluted the air and groundwater in the area.

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