"This is especially in light of the fact that the advice of Mauvin Godinho
and Jose
Philip D’Souza constitutes the very genesis of the present problem. Or else,
he should explain to the people of Goa and the people of his constituency,
his role in this alleged fraud in the case of the missing 70,000 sq. Metres
of land."
COMMENTS
Or else, explain what???
How many crores of rupees he [Mauvin Godinho] and Jose Philip D'Souza
siphoned from the pockets of Bernard Costa, the owner of 8/1, into their
own pockets????
This is highly unlikely to happen and the FRAUD will remain FRAUD at best,
and these two air-socks will face the winds as it blows in all directions.
Cheers
floriano
goasuraj
9890470896
www.goasu-raj.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Edwin/Diana Pinto" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Press Statement from GFDO
July 24, 2013
PRESS STATEMENT
Goans For Dabolim Only thanks the pro Mopa group “People for Mopa
International Airport” for supporting what the GFDO has been saying all
along that only one airport is feasible for Goa. This lays to rest once
and for all the government’s baseless claim that Dabolim Airport would
remain operational even after the setting up of Mopa Airport. In fact, the
government information disseminated on the issue is full of factual
errors, stark contradictions and arbitrariness of arguments that fail to
challenge the resultant conclusions arising out of objective reasoning and
rigorous and rational analysis and evaluation of facts, figures and case
studies of similar situations in other parts of the country as well as
expert reports on feasibility and the very need of a second airport based
on future air traffic projections for Goa. There is no doubt that this
thoughtless policy decision of the state government will have extremely
serious and far reaching economic and social implications for the state,
which larger sections of the Goan community have understood only too well.
GFDO is also glad that Dabolim MLA Mauvin Godinho has at last seen sense
and changed his earlier stand by urging the government to “think about the
proposed Mopa airport only when the need arises”. However, GFDO pointed
out that ironically, it is Mauvin Godinho himself who is allegedly
responsible for the strangulation of Dabolim Airport. According to the
minutes of the Meeting held on February 14, 2011, Mauvin Godinho, who was
then Chairman of Mormugao PDA, along with the then Revenue Minister Jose
Philip D’Souza of the NCP, were together the main architects and
facilitators of the contentious denotification of Survey 8/1 Dabolim. The
recorded minutes of the meeting clearly prove that both of them were the
ones who pointed out the existence of a vacant space of land around 70,000
sq. mts area available opposite the Airport meant for parking. It was on
the basis of this quid pro quo that notification of Sy. No.8/1 Dabolim
which had already reached Section 7 stage of the Land Acquisition Act was
withdrawn. Mr. Mauvin Godinho will recall that this claim of availability
of 70,000 sq. Metres of land was totally contrary to the findings of an
exercise jointly carried out by AAI, PWD and Survey Department in and
around the airport, which had ascertained that the land area in Surveys
No.8/1 and 9/1 were the only contiguously available areas for expansion of
Airport facilities. All other vacant areas they found, were either
affected by right of way of National Highway/Railways or was the property
of the Ministry of Defence. All this has been clearly recorded in the
minutes. Now, even after two years, Mauvin Godinho and Jose Philip D’Souza
have failed to identify the elusive land for the authorities. In the
meantime, commercial construction activity by a builder is on at breakneck
speed on the 36,800 sq. metres of denotified Survey 8/1.
If as he has claimed, Mauvin Godinho is sincere about ensuring that the
airport located in his constituency is of international quality and with
world class facilities, then GFDO requests him to first of all identify
the 70,000 sq. metres of land on the assurance of which he and Jose Philip
D’Souza had advised denotification of already acquired land. This will
enable the authorities to commence acquisition proceedings forthwith and
the much delayed expansion of facilities at Dabolim Airport can get
underway. This is especially in light of the fact that the advice of
Mauvin Godinho and Jose Philip D’Souza constitutes the very genesis of the
present problem. Or else, he should explain to the people of Goa and the
people of his constituency, his role in this alleged fraud in the case of
the missing 70,000 sq. Metres of land.
Fr. Eremito Rebello
Convenor
