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If what Surendra Furtado says is true then all of us, Goans, should put all our efforts together to get the Navy out of Dabolim and let it be a civilian airport -- in which case there is NO necessity for MOPA Airport. Cheers Aloysius Datch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bernado Colaco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <goanet@goanet.org> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 1:41 PM Subject: [Goanet] Surendra Furtado says Dabolim is illegally occupied | 'Navy illegally occupying Dabolim airport' | HERALD NEWS DESK | PANJIM, DEC 4 - The Nationalist Congress Party has | alleged that the Navy is illegally occupying Dabolim | airport and called for shifting of the Navy out of | Dabolim to the Sea Bird Project and expansion of the | airport, if required. | In a press note, Surendra Furtado, NCP General | Secretary & spokesperson said that the Dabolim | Airport still has four lakh square metres land, | sufficient to develop four | runaways. | He further, charged that the Navy is illegally in | possession of vast tracts of land by misinterpretation | of facts. | The civilian airfield, including the old airport | building, is situated on land that was expropriated by | 'Obras Publicas' vide a notification of 1954. The area | around thereafter was requisitioned under Defence of | India Act,1968, where major operations of Dabolim | Airport are now carried out by the Navy and is | illegally occupied under the guise of law, he alleged. | Under no law could such quantum of area be in | possession of the Naval authorities. Instead of | reverting Dabolim airport to civilian status, the Navy | proceeded to acquire more land at Dabolim. This | evidently materialized because of sheer ignorance and | indifference of the local Government, he charged. | The Defence Act is mainly to protect the security of | the nation, with every airport/harbour, which usually | becomes enemy targets, automatically come in | possession of the defence establishment as long as the | war lasts, after which, it is reverted back to | civilian control, Furtado added. | Ironically, however, this did not happen in the case | of Dabolim, as the Navy clung to the property, he | alleged. | Furtado further stated that even the area of 46,20,516 | sq mts notified under Section 4 in the Government | Gazette in 1967 and subsequently acquired for Naval | Air Station under Land Acquisition Act 1894 does not | cover the airfield. | According to Furtado, the area so claimed to be | acquired does not conform to any Revenue Cadastral | Plan maintained by Directorate of Land Survey then | existing, nor as per Communidades plans of Mormugao, | Vaddem, Chicalim, Sancoale and Assorcim. | | ============== | | Cheers | | B. Colaço | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Spread the Christmas cheer - even when you're not here! Send Christmas Greetings to your loved ones in Goa. 2005 Christmas Package - Flowers, Bubbles and Layers of Love. http://www.goa-world.com/expressions/xmas/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------
