Airport in Hasan

This article in The Hindu talks about a fairly ambitious airport development project in Hasan.

I am all for promoting aviation. And this project includes setting up flight training centres in the new airport so it is even more encouraging. However, a few thoughts came into my mind when I read this.

For a project being encouraged by the first family of Karnataka politics, where is their concern for all the land that farmers will lose in this project? Is their concern only for farmers everywhere except in their own backyard? So land use for infrastructure development everywhere is to be condemned whereas the same in their constituency is for generating employment and economic growth?

Or is it that the only "farmers" affected are the self same family, and they can afford such a big sacrifice for the good of the region? A huge payout from increasing land values nearby would help no doubt.

Also, as with all things in Karnataka, I foresee the aviation academies being swamped by ambitious young men and women from all over India while our own grandsons and great-grandsons of the soil are content sitting back and complaining about the invasion of foreigners. I am ashamed to say this, but we are a very unenterprising lot.