[Goanet]DEMOLITION OF CAMPAL STADIUM!

[domnic fernandes]

When the Government of Goa, Daman and Diu won the bid to host All India 
Civil Services Football Tournament (AICSFT) in 1971, there was no stadium in 
Panaji.  So, the then Chief Minister, late Dayanand Bandodkar, selected 
Campal as the venue and issued orders to build one on rush basis.  The 
stadium was inaugurated with the introduction of the first AICSFT in Goa in 
October 1971.  In all, 28 teams participated in the tournament, including 
one from Jammu & Kashmir.  I worked in the Secretariat at the time and was 
one of the organizing committee members of the tournament.  It is a pity 
that a 33-year old stadium has been demolished for the purpose of building a 
parking place for the ten-day film festival.  It is indeed a shame to do so 
without thinking of an alternative site!!!

Moi-mogan,
Domnic Fernandes
Anjuna/Dhahran, KSA
DEMOLITION OF CAMPAL STADIUM: Former chief minister Shashikala Kakodkar is 
filled with sadness that the Campal stadium, which was built by her father 
and Goa's first chief minister Dayanand Bandodkar, has been demolished. "It 
is a sad thing," she commented. The government should have thought of an 
alternative before razing it or announced another site for locating the new 
football stadium. Agreeing that the location was an ideal one for football 
lovers, she opined that it is hardly possible to find another suitable site 
in the city with open spaces hard to come by. (WE-GT)

WILLY CRITICISES: The president of the State unit of Nationalist Congress 
Party and Saligao MLA, Dr Wilfred de Souza, criticized the destruction of 
the Dayanand Bandodkar Stadium at Campal by the government, for the purpose 
of building a parking place for the ten-day film festival. "It is impossible 
to understand why such a move was contemplated which gets rid of the only 
stadium that the city of Panjim can boast of, when there is an urgent need 
to have many more such stadiums in the city," Dr de Souza said. (H)

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