-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Wishing all Goanetters | | a Prosperous | | and | | Happy New Year - 2006 | | Goanet - http://www.goanet.org | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- <Airports Authority of India (AAI) is planning to invite tenders for duty-free shops in seven airports across the country. "We will invite technical bids for Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calicut, Chennai, Goa, Kolkata and Thiruvananthapuram airports by mid-January 2006," confirmed a senior AAI official>
One more item on the dhobi list for Dabolim! Previous ones in recent times include a) an Rs 8 cr investment plan b) an offer of additional parking space for aircraft etc. Someone needs to monitor these plans as regards implementation on a war footing. More importantly, given the Union Cabinet decision of March 2000 to close Dabolim once Mopa goes onstream (which has been recently confirmed by the Civil Aviation Minister in his reply to Shantaram Naik, Goa's Rajya Sabha MP), it is necessary to resolve that we will never let go the foothold civil aviation has in Dabolim at any cost. We dont want to realise the value of Dabolim only when it is shut down! AAI learned this lesson the hard way with the Juhu airport in Mumbai. But since then aviation policy took the wrong tack at Kochi, repeated the mistake at Bangalore and Hyderabad and is set to do the same at Dabolim and other places like Pune unless Goa puts its collective foot down. Utt Goenkars! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Goa - 2005 Santosh Trophy Champions | | | | Support Soccer Activities at the grassroots in our villages | | Vacationing in Goa this year-end - Carry and distribute Soccer Balls | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
