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PANAJI
Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar handed over job appointment letters to one member each of the 15 project affected families set to be displaced by the upcoming Goa
International Airport at Mopa at a specially called function at the Secretariat on
Friday in the presence of local MLA Manohar "Babu" Ajgaonkar.
As many as 12 of the fifteen persons have been appointed as field assistants while one has been appointed as a driver, another as an assistant and one technician.
As per the agreement signed between the Goa Government and the GMR Goa International Airport Ltd, the concessionaire (GGIAL) has to offer employment to one person from each displaced family.
The Directorate of Civil Aviation obtained the details of the candidates and furnished it to GGIAL to provide employment. In keeping with its word GGIAL furnished appointment letters on October 31, this year.
The government has also earlier approved a rehabilitation package to the fifteen Dhangar families offering them alternate land, houses as well as grazing space in Casarvornem village in Pernem taluka.
The handover comes even as an order by the National Green Tribunal which has decreed that none of the fourteen families to be displaced by the upcoming Mopa be shifted out, is still in force.
