The Church is backing an agitation against the state's proposed second international airport in north Goa, a senior priest leading the protest against the project said Saturday. The new facility will come up in Mopa, a village 40 km from the capital. Fr. Eremito Rebello and other members of his civil society group who have been campaigning against the proposed airport for more than a year now were addressing a press conference in Panaji.
"The (Arch) bishop has asked me to go ahead with my conscience…the Church is also against the Mopa airport because the land on which the project is coming up is agriculturally rich and a lot of farmers will be displaced," Rebello said. The Goa government has already set the ball rolling for acquisition of over 80 lakh sq metres of land for the project located on the Mopa plateau near the Maharashtra border.
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"The (Arch) bishop has asked me to go ahead with my conscience…the Church is also against the Mopa airport because the land on which the project is coming up is agriculturally rich and a lot of farmers will be displaced," Rebello said. The Goa government has already set the ball rolling for acquisition of over 80 lakh sq metres of land for the project located on the Mopa plateau near the Maharashtra border.
21/09/13 IANS/IBN Live
