Navy should not make Goa Govt beg for Dabolim land: Naik

Panaji: Indian Navy should not make state government and Airport Authority of India go with a begging bowl before them for land to expand Dabolim airport in south Goa district, a Congress MP said here.
"The land actually belongs to the Government of Goa and the Indian Navy has not produced any deed of transfer of it when it was taken over during Goa liberation in 1961," Rajya Sabha member Shantaram Naik, who is member of state committee looking into feasibility of new airport in Goa, said on Saturday.
With serious doubts being raised on proposed international airport at Mopa in north Goa, the state government is following up their plans of Dabolim airport expansion which can accommodate more traffic.
After an intense agitation opposing Mopa airport in the state, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had constituted a committee headed by state Chief Minister to decide on the issue.
27/10/07 PTI/The Hindu

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Categories: Airports Oct 2007