Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Thursday that the Goa government must prepare a master plan to improve transport facilities in the state, which will get works worth Rs 25000-30000 crore sanctioned in the next five years.
After inaugurating a six-lane, access-controlled elevated stretch from Manohar International Airport in Mopa to Dhargal in North Goa, he spoke.
“The US government has decided to give licence for drone taxi there. Four to six persons can fly from one place to another. This will be a revolution. When I was Union minister for shipping, I had mooted a plan for water taxi in Goa but it never materialised. Under the plan, tourists arriving at the airport would get to the water taxi point by ropeway and then reach hotels,” he said.
Hotels on the seashore can construct individual jetties to receive tourists. A state like Goa should improve public transport, giving special attention to creating a master plan to reduce vehicular pollution.
The Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Gadkari, announced that works estimated at Rs 22,000 crore sanctioned for Goa will be completed this year, with an additional Rs 25,000-30,000 crore worth of projects to be approved over the next five years. He asserted that such improvements would eliminate the need for Goa ministers to visit Delhi for the speedy completion of works.
Moreover, a bypass running through Margao to the Karnataka border worth Rs 3,500 crore will be sanctioned. Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and Union Minister of State for Power Shripad Naik attended the event.
