{"id":5684,"date":"2022-12-12T11:50:35","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T06:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5684"},"modified":"2025-03-27T10:18:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T04:48:47","slug":"inauguration-of-mopa-international-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/inauguration-of-mopa-international-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Inauguration of Mopa International Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Mopa International Airport:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The airport is named after late Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The airport which was built at cost of \u20b92,870 crore will begin its operations from 5 January, 2023.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The foundation stone of the airport was laid by the Prime Minister in November 2016.<\/li>\n<li>This will be the s<strong>econd airport in the state after the Dabolim airport in South Goa.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The airport will have the capacity to handle 44 lakh passengers a year in the first phase and it will go up to one crore passengers a year after the entire project is complete.<\/li>\n<li>The airport has been built on the <strong>theme of sustainable infrastructure <\/strong>and has solar power plant, green buildings, LED lights on the runway, besides rainwater harvesting, state of the art sewage treatment plant with recycling facilities, among other such facilities.<\/li>\n<li>It has adopted some of the best-in-class technologies like <strong>3-D Monolithic Precast buildings<\/strong>, StabilRoad, Robomatic Hollow precast walls, 5G compatible IT infrastructure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1)\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Which Indian Institute was renamed after Manohar Parrikar?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In February 2020, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) was renamed as &#8216;Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA)&#8217; after former Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=PM-Narendra-Modi-inaugurates-Mopa-International-Airport-in-Goa-named-after-former-CM-Manohar-Parrikar&amp;id=452151\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">All India Radio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Named after Manohar Parrikar, Mopa will be the second airport in Goa after the Dabolim airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}