Goa does not need another airport at Mopa! All it needs is a 'Bigger Airport
at Dabolim" and this is feasible at less cost and can be done in much less
time too!
The author has spoken about big Cities having airports at one end of town.
True! But Goa is not a big city, nor will it be so in the near future.
Goa already has a great location at Dabolim and in the 'centre of town'.
So even when Goa does claim big City status; it will have a world class
airport in the heart of town.
So why do you want to drag 'Our Airport" in the Centre of Town to the
northern end of town and create more and more transport and logistics
prblems??
Please threfore support Dabolim Airport only! Dabolim forever! Mopa never!
Naasci Caaldeira
Goa
From: "Philip Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] Re: MOPA Airport
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 11:25:03 +0530
<A simplistic view is that any project will generate
jobs and be good for the local economy/people. But one
has to dig deep.>[J.Fernandes]
Reminds me of a beautiful cartoon by the famous R.K.Laxman of TOI in which
a bureaucrat is telling his Minister:
"This project will be highly beneficial to the people but we should not
implement it because there is bound to be corruption etc involved."
Instead of analysing costs and benefits sensibly (i.e. purely from Goa's
perspective), corruption-proofing projects, and tackling any problems of
locational skewing at the inception (instead of nearly ten years after the
fact) we make a hue and cry late in the day over Mopa which "signifies
nothing"! Our efforts should be focused on getting the Union Cabinet ruling
about Dabolim reversed instead of trying to cut out Mopa to spite the face
of Goa as Laxman was humorously highlighting.
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