Goa, Oct. 24 -- In a year where there has been little to cheer - despite it being the 60th year of Goa's Liberation and was meant to have a variety of celebrations - the claimed success of the first phase of the Swayampurna Goem initiative lends hope that the government did something positive during the past 12 months. The success even led to Prime Minister Narendra Modi taking an hour off on Saturday to interact with a Swayampurna Mitra, a sarpanch, a municipal council chairperson and four beneficiaries of the initiative. The interaction revealed that the Centre had taken note of the programme and what the Goa government had achieved. Interestingly, the Prime Minister said that 'Goa means nature and tourism, but today it also means a new m...