Vadodara: Mayor Bharat Dangar tried to put to rest the controversy regarding the M S University (MSU) land that Vadodara Municipal Corporation is looking to beautify as a part of its station area redevelopment plan. The plan is a part of the Smart City project that the civic body has taken up.The row was raked up after the VMC stated that a part of the land opposite the university's Experimental School fell in the road line. The MSU put up a strong opposition to this and challenged the road line stating that it was an afterthought of VMC. The university stated that it was offered a plot on the same road line for Rs12.57 crore in 2015 and in late March this year the same plot was offered to MSU in exchange of three other parcels of land. MSU also claims that it has documents to support the fact that the land of the school was not in the road line. MSU had also shot a sternly worded letter to the VMC in this regard.Dangar, who was in Somnath on Friday and Saturday, issued a statement on Saturday stating that any beautification of the area around the university will be done by taking the university into confidence and discussing the plans with it. Dangar said he was an alumnus of the university and also a teacher there. "I cannot think of doing injustice to the university," he said.Dangar is a former student leader of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad and held the top posts of the MSU students' union general secretary and vice-president. He later joined the BJP after passing out from the university.Dangar said the VMC had worked cordially with Indian Railways, city police, district collectorate and jail departments. "We want to do the same with the university. Both MSU and VMC are public institutions and there cannot be a conflict between the two," he said.

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