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I know that the powers that be normally operate on technicalities and formalities, and who signed what document under "which conditions". However the Navy should consider the ground realities - that the area is a hotbed of petroleum tank farms and naphtha and ammonia pipelines crisscrossing right across the densely populated Zuari, Vasco, Mormugao areas. Also the Navy's accident track record, particularly with MIGs (not only in Goa, but in rest of the country even quite recently), is a bit scary. The function of the Indian Navy is to protect the country's territorial waters, and presumably its populace, not to endanger them by conducting training sorties over an inflammable area like Mormugao. In my opinion, either the Navy should go, or the petroleum tanks and pipelines. Diana
