One year in the saddle, Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat is satisfied with his government's initiatives and is upbeat about the State's prospects for social and economic development What are the biggest achievements of your government? Here, I would like to re-emphasise what I had said when I took over as chief minister in 2007. At that time when I was asked what were going to be the goals of my government, I had said that there is nothing specific that I am going to do. But, everything that I will do will be for the benefit of the common man. Whatever things need to be done for the benefit of the common man, my government would do without hesitation. Here, I can proudly state that whatever decisions my government has taken have been in the interest of Goa and in the interest of the common man. What are the areas in which your government has achieved what it set out to do? There have been many areas where we have successfully delivered to the people what we had promised them. Take the case of the controversy over the Regional Plan. The Regional Plan had to have the confidence of the people of Goa. So, we had to put up a team that would prepare a Regional Plan that achieved this aim. Here, I spoke to experts from all sectors - architects like Charles Correa Town Planner Edgar Rebeiro and representatives of Architects/ Engineers, Goa Bachav Abhiyan, CREDI etc. so that the plan had the widest possible representation. I am happy that this task force has really done a commendable job and we should in all probability be releasing its report - the Draft Regional Plan 2021-within this month. The draft report will be accessible to all to put in their comments and considerations, which shall be suitably included in the final report. The other areas....? The second major area we have successfully met people's concerns relates to the Special Economic Zones (SEZs). Here again, the public at large was against the setting up of SEZs in the State and it was in keeping with this that my government took the decision to do away with the SEZs. We then requested the Central Government to pass necessary orders in this regard and work in this regard is in progress. What do you have to say about the controversy over the Mopa airport project? It is true that there is lot of apprehension that the Dabolim Airport would be closed down once the new airport comes up. While we feel-and this has been seconded by a high-level committee we set up to go into the issue-that an international airport at Mopa is needed in the long run, I would like to reiterate that the Dabolim airport in South Goa would continue to operate as an international airport. In fact, the Dabolim airport is being expanded and upgraded with the Civil Aviation Ministry having sanctioned nearly Rs 500 crore for the purpose. In fact, the upgradation project is in the final stages of approval and work can be expected to start shortly. Even in this case, my approach all along has been to involve all sections of society in any decision that we take. How else would you say that your government has been reaching out to the people? Take the current scenario of rising prices. The Goa government is perhaps the only state government to have taken a proactive stand on this issue. Even today we are supplying esse