by politicians, local academicians, and the farmers currently occupying the proposed site relates to the relatively vast area of the proposed campus and its large student intake, although a few individual opinions differ. Legal issues High Court declares land acquisition for the university as illegal and void On 16 November 2010, the Orissa High Court declared the land acquisition for the Rs 15,000-crore Vedanta University project in Puri town as illegal and void Supreme Court - status quo on all land acquisition for Vedanta A couple of months later, the Supreme court of India based in New Delhi ordered a stay or status Quo on all acquisition proceedings. University was a closed chapter for four plus years News paper reports appeared saying that the university is a closed chapter. Revival attempt starting 30 April 2015 A revival of the project is being tried with the hiring of the ex-Chief Secretary of Odisha, Mr. Bijay Patnaik, as the President of the Vedanta University Project. He joined this position on 30 April 2015. He told TOI that his priority would be to expedite the decision in the supreme court case. Asked about potential conflict of interest, he said that such a question does not arise as the project he has joined has nothing to do with Vedanta as a company and he personally feels that the university is a desirable project that should take shape in the interest of Odisha. In an interview with Telegraph he discusses more details on his task in reviving Vedanta University. He also gave an interview (in Odia) to OTV, a major cable channel in Odisha where he addresses many questions that has been raised by the media on this issue. Some signs of a possible revival were earlier reported in September 2014 and December 2014. However, prior to that, in the previous years (2012, 2013), Anil Agarwal in some of his interviews did talk about his continuing interest in establishing Vedanta University. See for example: The Supreme court of India on 28 November 2016 gave some positive indications that it may allow Vedanta University. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India and a member of the bench hearing this case, Justice T.S. Thakur, is quoted to have said "Why should anyone oppose setting up of a world class university which will give opportunity to over one lakh students? If somebody is making an investment