India, May 27 -- A team from the NITI Aayog will travel to Goa to study the state government's proposal for the revival of 'khazan' land, the low-lying floodplains used for agriculture, salt pans and fishing, chief minister Pramod Sawant said on Monday.

"We have placed our proposal for the revival of 10,000 hectares of the khazan paddy fields. They will come here and study the proposal and submit their recommendations to the agriculture ministry so that whatever financial support is required, we can receive," Goa Sawant said on Monday.

Sawant also sought "large-scale funding" to undertake "repairs and maintenance of outer and inner bunds; sluice gates and desilting of poiems (small creeks)" at the 10th governing council meeting of NITI ...