-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Add your name to the CLEAN GOA INITIATIVE | | | | by visiting this link and following the instructions therein | | | | http://shire.symonds.net/pipermail/goanet/2005-October/033926.html | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- <Plan to make Mopa Goa's only civilian airport reveals Churchill Says Union cabinet at a meeting held on March 29, 2000 took a decision to close down the Dabolim airport for civilian use following the setting up of a new airport of international standards at Mopa. Mr Alemao produced a letter of May 1, 2000 from the ministry of civil aviation.>[GOANET NEWS BYTES * Nov 20, 2005 * DATELINE GOA>
The full text of one report on this topic is available at: http://www.navhindtimes.com/stories.php?part=news&Story_ID=112026 The one I read was in HERALD and it had the intriguing additional information that the letter Churchill was referring to was "communicated to the Goa chief secretary on **May 1, 2005**" -- i.e after a gap of 5 (five) years!! Some sort of a record in red-tape, right? :(
