<The goal should be to restore Dabolim as a full-time civilian airport which will more than serve the aviation needs of Goa, The land scam Mopa is not needed and no one should promote land scams in Goa. The Indian navy can move to bases outside Goa.Regards,George>
To achieve "the goal" Dabolim needs to continue to function for at least 20 years in tandem with Mopa. It should not close either intentionally or by default. The latter wll depend on Mopa's design and the availability of ground access to it. The bigger and the better, respectively, the worse the chances of survival. The Navy is not going to oblige the way it is naively expected by George. A beginning will have to be made by the citizenry to call for a U.S. style Base Realignment And Closure (BRAC) exercise, at least as far as air bases are concerned, so that civil enclaves like Dabolim, Pune Lohegaon, Vishakhapatnam, Agra etc dont get shut by (other) vested interests as it happened at HAL, Begumpet, and Cochin.
