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Mopa Airport To Resume In August 2022
Around 90 percent work of the M o p a a i r p o r t h a s b e e n completed and is expected to be commissioned after August 15th 2022 said Goa Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant. S p e a k i n g i n t h e s t a t e Assembly during the monsoon s e s s i o n o n W e d n e s d a y , Sawant also said the airport at Mopa in North Goa district w o u l d b e c o m m i s s i o n e d "between August 15 and September 1 this year". Almost 90 per cent of the work on this project has been completed and trials at the airport are on, he said without elaborating further. A Skill Development Centre has already started operating at the airport site where students are being trained for the purpose of employment in the project. More students would be enrolled in the coming days, the CM said. After the commissioning of the Mopa airport, the existing Dabolim airport in the coastal state will not be closed and flight operations will continue there, he added. The Dabolim international airport,located in South Goa district, operates as a civil enclave in a military airbase named INS Hansa. CM Sawant on Monday said in the Assembly that many countries were waiting to sign an agreement with Goa for operate their flights here, which would be possible only after the commissioning of the greenfield airport at Mopa. In the wake of the existing infrastructure at the Dabolim airport, the state has an a g r e e m e n t w i t h o n l y 1 8 countries, he had said. Only 70 flights land at the Dabolim Airport on a daily b a s i s , a s n o l a n d i n g i s permitted from 9 am to 2 pm at the facility. After the commissioning of the Mopa airport, the number of flights landing in Goa will go up to 150, the CM had said.
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Association of Mining Engineers Seeks Mining Resumption
Mining operations in Goa were stopped in March 2018 following the Supreme Court quashing 88 mining leases. "Citing the very high rate of unemployment in the state, the Goa chapter of MEAI claimed that in the absence of industrial activity, mining professionals are facing an unprecedented job crisis," Mining Engineers' Association of India said in a statement. A m i n i n g e n g i n e e r s ' association has called for resumption of mining activities through best possible means in Goa. The Mining Engineers' Association of India (MEAI)- Goa Chapter said that in the absence of industrial activity i n t h e s t a t e , m i n i n g professionals are facing an unprecedented job crisis. Mining operations in Goa were stopped in March 2018 following the Supreme Court quashing 88 mining leases. Raising the concern of the rising unemployment rate in Goa, MEAI- Goa Chapter appealed to governments at the Centre and the state, to immediately allow resumption of mining activities through best possible means. The association said that due to the stoppage of mining o p e r a t i o n s a n d m a s s i v e slowdown in other industrial sectors in Goa, as per the C M I E r e p o r t , i t s u n e m p l o y m e n t r a t e w a s higher than that of several b i g g e r s t a t e s s u c h a s Chhattisgarh (0.7 per cent), Gujarat (2.1 per cent), Madhya Pradesh (1.6 per cent), Odisha (2.6 per cent), Uttar Pradesh (3.1 per cent) during May. Despite being a small state, Goa features among the first six states with maximum unemployment rate in India. "Goa ' s economic revival is extremely vital without any further delays, and we urge government to relook at the ever-worsening employability scenario leading to various repercussions such as rising cases of addictions, domestic violence, stress, illiteracy etc," Joseph Coelho, Chairman, MEAI Goa Chapter said.
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