Former power, art and culture minister Digambar Kamat who heads the new Congress-led coalition government in Goa has promised to nullify all land conversions that took place here after August 2006. The Congress government had already scrapped the controversial Regional Plan 2011 after a public outcry earlier this year.
The 53-year-old new chief minister, a real estate developer himself, said tough decisions would be taken to make the administration accountable and the government responsive to the needs of common people.
“We will be a people-friendly government, and officers will have to move out to the field,” Mr Kamat said after he was sworn in on Friday. 
Three others were sworn in as ministers of Cabinet rank with Mr Kamat.
Goa Pradesh Congress committee chief Ravi Naik who was edged out of the race for the chief minister's post to accommodate the demands of the new allies, also finds place in the new ministry.
Mr Jose Phillip D'Souza of the NCP and Mr Ramkrishna Dhavlikar of the MGP were the two others inducted into the Cabinet.
Mr Kamat is expected to expand the ministry in a few days in consultation with Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and the party's allies. 
The new coalition government has the support of 16 MLAs from the Congress, three from the NCP, two from the MGP and the support of two independents, including Mr Vishwajeet Rane, the son of outgoing chief minister Pratapsingh Rane.
Producing a new regional plan to keep in check over-development and conversion of green areas and the pressing garbage problem are the immediate challenges before the new chief minister.