of india and some parts of eastern india advt we will penetrate more on those states and also in the existing states we will move a little more south in the next two to three years that is how our plans are we will be opening 50 or more stores this year and grow those numbers in the consecutive years we would also be targeting a good amount of same stores sales growth where we see a large number of opportunities which is left in the market where we are operating where we can also pull in more like to like sales in the coming years so that is what our plans are to try and triple our sales in the next three to four yearsyou have a benchmark with regards to your samestore sales growth how much are you planning to achievewe have been always feeling that 7 to 8 sales should come in from like to like category but in the last fiveseven years we have achieved those at an average basis but last one year we have not done that this year also we may have a little struggle looking at the market conditions we see a large amount of opportunity as a large amount of per capita income growth is expected our government is talking about 5trillion economy target and that is going to fuel consumption we should be able to capture it in our same store sales growthi applaud the fact that you have set a very big target and a vision to triple your sales but the challenges also have increasedas the opportunities are increasing there are more players entering the fray to avail of those opportunities we should also be doing it because we are the pioneers of these markets and we have been doing it for years i understand that the reliances of the world and futures of the world or even the pantaloons of the world are trying to cater to a similar market and bringing in new formats whether online or offline there are people who are trying to come in and that is why we are also very bullish on that if people who have never been to these markets and if people who have been mostly urban centric are now trying to be in little midmarket or semiurban centric markets and if they are able to succeed why not vmart that is how we have challenged ourselves and taken a little aggressive targetwe did not go for these bullish approach in the last three to four years because we wanted to stabilise our organisation structure we want to stabilise our processes technology and now we feel that we have done enough of that we should now push our paddle a little more stronger and try to take that path we understand there will be challenges on real estate there will be challenges on finances there may be some challenges on people or even marketing conditions but that is