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This month's Goanet operations sponsored by Mrs. Daisy Faleiro If you would like to sponsor Goanet's operations contact: Herman Carneiro - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Philip, Surely you are not laying the blame for a lack of basic facilities at Dabolim Airport on the shoulders of the Indian Navy rather than on the IAAI which manages the operations and establishment? Roland. On 2/23/07, Philip Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <Perhaps what is unforgivable is that Goa, a tourist destination of repute > doesn't have changing tables. > Shouldn't this have been a basic requirement? Are we only aiming to sell > "holiday homes" to Europeans,while basic necessities such as these are not > tended to?>[Selma Carvalho] > > This is an example of a common syndrome I have observed in Goa. "Dont give > us pie-in-the-sky, just attend to basics." The problem is that the whole > tone and tenor of attention to details is set by the big picture. In the > case of Dabolim airport, what for all practical purposes should be a tourist > oriented civilian airport is being kept on a tight leash by a > dog-in-the-manger military for decades. Energy has to be expended on > democratically changing this fundamental institutional problem. Other things > will follow once the flood gates are opened.