########################################################################## # Goanetters-2004 meet in Goa. Dec 21, Tuesday. 12 noon to 2 pm. # # Clube Vasco, Near Municipal Garden, Panjim. Pass the word around! # ##########################################################################
This is, of course, great news though one fears that it may just be an excuse for a holiday jaunt to Goa! There are a number of questions about this committee and its visit which immediately come to mind. Let us hope they can be anticipated and Goanetters will be kept closely updated by those in the know. The Dabolim issue has been keenly debated in Goanet since October to my knowledge. So the relevant arguments are all there and only have to be compiled and summarised for the Committee's reference purposes. Any new information and arguments will hopefully be shared at the earliest by the concerned people. Regrettably there has been no update on Goanet about the activities of Churchill Alemao in the Defence Committee of which he is a member and whose recent meeting in Delhi he reportedly attended as per a press report. Let us hope Goanetters ae not asleep at the wheel on this issue.:) In a recent press report, there is talk of the govt's plans to set up an aeronautics panel IN A FEW WEEKS to synergise the working of civil and defence esablishments in aviation matters including sharing of assets while maintaining separate identities. The aim seems to be to tap the emerging $50 billion -by-2011 Indian travel market. Although technology development and manufacturing have been highlighted in the panel's proposed agenda there is no logical reason why low cost air travel to facilitate tourism, VFR , business etc which is of prime importance to Goa at Dabolim (and in due course at Mopa) should be excluded.
