"Santana Afonso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >In my last write-up, I have exposed the promises of the Central Government >for allocating the Rs. 150 crore for infrastructural and modifying our >Dabolim International Airport. Till so far nothing is done but only >promises. > ===> This seems to be the growing trend these days with the politicians who seem to have resorted to this new ploy of making "Empty promises" and hoping to keep the public happy ... like they say you can fool some of the people for some of the time BUT not all of the people for all the time. The central aviation ministry in addition has also listed Goa's Dabolim airport as one of the domestic airports in the country to be "privatised". Now when this tussle is still going on between the Indian Navy controlling the Dabolim Airport, how would the "privatization" of the airport be undertaken ? Or maybe its was the Civil Aviation Minister talking after his fun-filled trip to Goa, the in-famous stay at Taj Exotica, whose hotel bills were published in the Indian Express and included purchase of huge amounts of liquor ... maybe it was all the liquor he bought during that stay in Goa that was doing the talking :-)
There has also been a huge publicity binge that was launched about a large sum of grants approved by the central government for developing the electricity infrastructure, making a transition to under-ground cabling. The initial approval was for Margao and Panjim, and apparantly when the Union Power minister was in Goa, he approved a similar transition for the other three major towns of Vasco, Mapusa and Phonda. We are yet to see any work commence on this all-ready approved project as well. One wonders what happens to all these so called "approved" projects; are they for real or just political rhetoric and gimmicks ? -- Brian __________________________________________________________________ Introducing the New Netscape Internet Service. Only $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################
