<Addressing the sailors on Saturday, Dr Manmohan Singh said that India would soon have another aircraft carrier Vikramaditya. Admiral Gorshkov, after modification, will be commissioned as Vikramaditya. He also told newsmen that navy can contribute a lot to the growth of India's trade.>
This would have been a perfect opportunity for the Navy top brass to impress on the PM that he should not do anything to shift it out of Dabolim over the Mopa airport imbroglio which he eventually is supposed to resolve personally. All kinds of misinformation such as how the Navy has extracted Rs 70 *thousand* crores from Goa over the past 45 years and sunk it into Dabolim for national security puposes would no doubt have been bandied about. Let us hope the PM was able to see through all this self serving bluster and takes a decision which is really in the country's economic interests in the new security environment. As an aside it should be mentioned that I caught a snippet of the PM's stay on board the aircraft carrier reported above and was surprised to fnd that his wife was by his side! All a very nice family outing in great style out at sea off the Goa coast. Gives a new meaning to the phrase "combining business with pleasure", right? Bah! _____________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. Goanet mailing list ([email protected])
