Maha airport project gets ministry nod http://www.financialexpress.com/news/Maha-airport-project-gets-ministry-nod/ 356996/ >A proposal to set up a Greenfield airport in Sindhudurg in Maharashtra was accorded 'in-principle' approval by the civil aviation ministry on Wednesday. The Maharashtra government had proposed to set up the new airport through the public-private-partnership route at an estimated cost of Rs 492 crore, with the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation as the nodal agency.> Finally some signs of the fire under all the smoke. Its funny that the cost is estimated at only about Rs 500 crores. This is what Mopa should have been. Instead it is still pegged at the extravagant ICAO model of about Rs 1300 crores. Now Mopa is in danger of being stillborn! And Goa will have to be content with a hobbling Dabolim since the Navy has lowered the boom on further expansion and hence any modernisation. We should have had a Rs 500 crore Mopa regional airport plus Dabolim international airport as-is-where-is. Goa is all set to miss the bus again. Kyrie elison.
