Goa naval authorities flayed

Senior Congress leader and MP Shantaram Naik on Friday criticised the naval authorities in Goa for stalling the work on the Dabolim airport expansion project being undertaken by the Airports Authority of India (AAI).

The MP, who was on the high-power committee set up by the Prime Minister two years ago to study the controversy over two airports, told presspersons that the naval authorities had ordered the AAI to stop excavation work at the airport site.

Mr. Naik alleged that the naval authorities did not hand over 12 acres of land to the AAI. They were not cooperating with the AAI with regard to work on a taxi-track to be used for landing of aircraft.