-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Add your name to the CLEAN GOA INITIATIVE | | | | by visiting this link and following the instructions therein | | | | http://shire.symonds.net/pipermail/goanet/2005-October/033926.html | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- <What the Ranes and Luizinhos require to do is to impress upon the Centre the need to "convert" Dabolim...
To convert Dabolim from the present Naval Air Station with a civil enclave, to a Civilian Airport with a naval enclave -- a modernized version of the present one, at much cheaper conversion fees to boot! But what if, just if, having done that, the Goa government finds that wheels bigger than its own, grind the axe in Delhi? The answer is simple: we are a state and Land Acquisition is as entirely a State subject, as Civil Aviation is the Centre's. The Goa Government has the means and the ways to allow the Mopa Land Acquisition proceedings to lapse. Where will the Civil Aviation Ministry build the airport if the State provides no land to build another?> Why do I have this strange feeling that when it comes to the Navy the author only has a vague hocus pocus type suggestion wrapped in a lot of jiggery pokery while the state govt is told specifically to "stop land acquisition"! Why cant the Navy be told equally specifically to stop military flight training at Dabolim so that slots can be increased manifold? The we might actually get somewhere on this issue in Goa. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Goa - 2005 Santosh Trophy Champions | | | | Support Soccer Activities at the grassroots in our villages | | Vacationing in Goa this year-end - Carry and distribute Soccer Balls | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
