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Plastic collection in Guirdolim
Residents of Guirdolim can now heave of sigh of relief as the Panchayat is in the process of commencing door to door plastic waste collection very soon. Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott (GBE) has been working in the two villages of Chandor-Cavorim and Guirdolim for the last more than five years on garbage management. Probably in recognition of their good work, GBE President John Douglas Coutinho was appointed on the Garbage Management Committee of Chandor-Cavorim Village Panchayat and subsequently elected its chairman. It was primarily due to his...
read moreBEAUTIFYING TRAFFIC ISLANDS
While the country paid respect to the father of the nation Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi on October 2 this year, Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott too undertook a special programme to mark the occasion. GBE members planted bougainvillea saplings in the three triangular traffic islands existing in front of the Chandor church. In all 17 saplings were planted by 15 members who had gathered at the spot. GBE has undertaken the task of not only providing manure to the saplings but also to trim them regularly so that they do not become a hindrance for traffic....
read moreVale Brasil
It is indeed a matter of pride for all Chandorkars that a co-villager Savio D’Silva has just returned home after captaining the world’s largest vessel afloat in present times in terms of dead weight that is to say its cargo carrying capacity. The ship is the first Very Large Ore Carrier (VLOC) that was built at Daewoo Shipyard in Korea and delivered to Vale Shipping, its Brazilian owners on 31st March 2011. Originally the ship was named “Vale Brasil” but on 3rd July 2014 its name was changed to “Ore...
read moreDemo on Tube Light Disposal
Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott organized a demonstration of scientific way of disposal of non functioning tube lights without harming the environment or causing nuisance to the public. On 4th September 2014 two demonstrations were held at the Panchayat Offices of Chandor-Cavorim and Guirdolim. A Bombay based company Ecoreco separated the mercury from the tube lights which was collected in a separat4e container which is then scientifically disposed. As for the glass and aluminium parts of the tube lights, they are crushed and stored in a drum which is...
read moreTop Ranker at SSC Exams year 2014
Congratulations to all the students of St. Joseph’s Education Institute, Chandor who passed the Secondary School Certificate Examinations conducted by the Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education this year. In all 114 students answered the exams as one girl dropped out at the last moment. Of the 114 students who answered the exams 93 passed thereby giving the school a passing percentage of 81.58 per cent. The breakup of the performance of the students is as follows: 16 passed with distinctions, 23 passed with a First Class,...
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Guirdolim cleanliness drive
Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott (GBE) on 28th May 2014 helped Guirdolim Panchayat clean certain portions of their village of the accumulated garbage therein. The area behind the building housing the Canara Bank, the Monte area, the place around the cemetery and the creek separating Cavorim from Guirdolim where there is a small bridge at present, were cleaned. Ironically, while GBE President John Douglas Coutinho pressed into service his around 27 labourers GBE members were woefully short in numbers and more so members from Guirdolim village....
read moreTailoring Classes by GBE
Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott in collaboration with Rotary Club of Cuncolim started “tailoring, cutting & embroidery” classes in Chandor wherein 16 ladies from the village have enrolled for the six month course. This unique project of the Rotary Club of Cuncolim was kick started with the money collected by its member Dr. Jorson Fernandes who refused to accept any flowers or mementoes during his tenure as District Governor of Rotary Club and instead kept a box for donation. Rotary Club of Waynesborco in Brazil joined hands with Rotary...
read moreTri-cycle for cleanliness
The Chandor-Cavorim Village Panchayat has launched yet another venture to keepthe village clean by employing a person to go around the village collecting plasticwaste not only from the households but also from the streets and open spaces. For this purpose a tricycle has been donated by Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott to thePanchayat besides also giving the employee of the Panchayat a T-shirt and a cap.Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott has also prepared pamphlets that educate the people tomanage the plastic waste and the same will be distributed to each...
read moreKhell Competition organized at Chandor
Salvador Afonso’s khell “Ugdasak” won the first prize at the Traditional Carnival Khell Competition organized by Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott at Chandor on the three days of Carnival. In all there were eight khells presented. While “Portuguese Passport” presented by Sansil from Benaulim bagged the second place, the third prize went to Victor de Fatorpa’s “Xezari”. The competition organized in collaboration with Directorate of Art and Culture was much appreciated by the spectators who packed the multipurpose hall at Cavorim during the...
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