"Eddie Fernandes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> �From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> �To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> �> Goa's Airport Situation by Brian Antao
> �>
> �> Goa's only airport situated in Dabolim has drawn quite a bit of debate,
> �> as the Indian Navy owns it. Apparently the Navy now wants full control
> �> of the airport leaving Goa with no airport for civilian transportation.
>
> �-------------------------------------------------------
>
> �Brian,
>
> �Interesting reading but �what do you mean by: "Apparently the Navy now
>wants full control �of the airport leaving Goa?"
>
> �I thought that they were in full control of the airport and have been so
>since 1961. �Do you mean that they want it exclusively for their use? �If so
>what is the basis of your claim? �I thought the Navy had gradually been
>allowing greater civilian use.
>
=====> It is aparantly because of this claim, that the Indian Navy has
intimated to the Goa government that it wants the Dabolim airport
exclusively for Navy use, that the Goa Government embarked on the
plan to construct a new civilian airport in Mopa... I don't have exact
references to this but perhaps Fred N. would be able to dig something up from the news
archives.
> �9 July 2002: Times of India. The Centre has approved a Rs 150 crore
>expansion plan for Dabolim airport. �The Civil Aviation Ministry has
>approved an ambitious project for the expansion of the Dabolim airport with
>a new terminal building " would commence next month,"
The Centre approved this Rs. 150 crore expansion plan dated 9 July 2002, we are
now in 2004, by now this expansion work should have been
COMPLETED !!! quite on the contrary it has not even begun !!!
>
> �3 May 2003. �Navhind Times, A new terminal, to facilitate arrivals of
>chartered flights is to be constructed at Dabolim airport at the cost of
>Rs.60 crore.
>
===> Another "pipe-dream" which is yet to be materialized.
> �1 Mar. 2004. Herald. �A positive signal seems to be emerging with the
>setting up of the inter-ministerial committee of the Ministry of Civil
>Aviation and the Ministry of Defence functionaries, with regard to the
>acquisition of additional land for the proposed expansion of the Dabolim
>International Airport.
>
===> Well the problem that maybe standing in the way of all these
promised expansion projects at the Dabolim airport is due to the
fact that it is controlled by the Indian Navy, which might me
coming in the way of making these "civillian" expansions to the
airport. In addition to this airport this same group of ministers,
has approved the "privatization" of Goa's airport along with a
few others in the country... a report about this appeared in the
National Press. These were apparantly the small-scale airports;
While this Group of Ministers is still working on the mega new
privatized new international airports at Mumbai and New Delhi.
On that front the latest developments have reached as far as
appointing ABN-AMRO as the main consultants.
>
> �Also �for the last three years we have been receiving reports that the
>airport is able to operate at nights. �But no flight is allowed to land at
>night!
>
====> This has been a major contentuous issue with the different airline
operators to Goa, who have been forced to operate flights to Goa only in fixed time
slots, as during the other times the airport is reserved for
Indian Navy use. There was an article in the O'Herald written by an
Indian Navy officer citing statistics on the usage of the Dabolim
airport, by the civilian service and the Indian Navy.
-- Brian
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