From: "Philip Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <goanet@goanet.org>
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Subject: [Goanet] PARRIKAR'S CLEVER COP-OUT ON DABOLIM
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 07:52:11 +0530
In a talking head clip on cable TV (local news telecast) ex-CM Parrikar
said
in effect: "Around the world it is easier to drive a foreign power out of
a
place than to get the local military to pull out" adding, " I challenge you
to give me even one example of the latter".
Alternatively, Parrikar would have found that at a big tourist/military
airport like Hawaii there is what is known as joint management of the
base/international airport. In India there is a lot of talk about 'flexible
airspace management'.
Frankfurt is another comparable example
AdeT
Goa could have taken the lead in expediting the
materialisation of this arrangement which is acutely needed nationally
today.
These are some of the areas a Goa CM would be expected to know something
about and pursue with the Centre. But it would presume they have, to begin
with, a lively vision about the central importance in this day and age of
airports to the economy and society of a city and region.
