“We will decide on inaugurating this airport between August 15 to 30. In the next six months 500, candidates will be recruited here. In allied services, it will require more one thousand staff, within six months, once the airport is commissioned.”
— Pramod Sawant, Goa Chief Minister
The Goa Chief Minister, Pramod Sawant, recently mentioned that flights would start landing at Mopa airport from September 1. The inauguration date of the airport, however, is yet to be decided, according to a report by IANS.
“We will decide on inaugurating this airport between August 15 to 30. In the next six months 500, candidates will be recruited here. In allied services, it will require more one thousand staff, within six months, once the airport is commissioned,” Sawant said.
He said that those Goan youth, and specifically from Pernem (where the Mopa airport is being built) want their aviation skill to get updated, can take admissions for better prospects. “From September 1, flights will start landing at Mopa. We will have to join training (centres) to get jobs in this area. Government jobs are not only jobs, even the private sector has good opportunities. We need to grab them,” he said.
Sawant said that continuous skilling and training will be required to get jobs in the aviation sector. “It will be a continuous process of recruitment here. For this we will need to skill ourselves,” he said. “Even the hospitality sector is a bigger sector, if we take admissions in such courses (through ITI and polytechnics) then it will help as two lakh jobs will be created in this sector within two to three years,” he said.
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