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Chandor Cavorim Gram Sabha Chandor
The Chandor Cavorim Gram Sabha on 11th November unanimously resolved asking the Centre to confer Special Status upon Goa under Article 371 of the Constitution of India in order to preserve the cultural, linguistic and demographic identity of Goa. The proposal mooted by Julio D’Silva was seconded by Joy D’Silva. The Gram Sabha also expressed the need to revise the budget as the house tax has been abolished and the panchayat was asked to explore the possibilities of increasing the revenue of the panchayat by taxing sectors that have been...
read moreCavorim Communidade General Body Communidade office
The General Body of Cavorim Communidade was held on 23rd September 2012 from 10:30 am onwards in the Communidade office and after a long time the quorum was present hence the agenda could be discussed. In the first place Cavorim Communidade President Tiago da Silva gave a detailed presentation of the illegalities committed in Survey No. 47/1 and exposed the fraudulent manner in which former managing committee member Nelson Costa (who is related to the father of Goa’s freedom movement Tristao Braganza Cunha) had usurped Communidade land and...
read moreRogue Monkey Trapped Molla, Cavorim
A black faced Langur that was troubling the residents of Molla, Cavorim for the last nearly three months, has finally been caught after he was lured into the trap laid by Forest Department officials on 24th August 2012. A large number of monkeys have been visiting Molla and Sailabhat areas of Cavorim Chandor from the time the blasting in nearby Bobcol commenced, they would only damage some horticultural crops without causing any damage to the houses or harassing the people. However, since June this year, one monkey began harassing the locals....
read moreAgriculture Dept Meeting Chandor
Agriculture Dept Meeting in Chandor 29-June-2012 Mrs. Janice Alphonso, Agriculture Officer attached to Zonal Agriculture Office, Margao of Agriculture Department, Government of Goa, conducted a meeting of farmers in the Chandor-Cavorim Panchayat hall on 29th June 2012. In a talk that lasted for over 60 minutes, she went through all the schemes available with the department in detail. Mrs. Alphonso very lucidly explained the various schemes to promote paddy cultivation ranging from preparing the field, sowing the seed, maintaining the crop...
read moreNew Managing Committee Chandor Guirdolim Cavorim
Mr. John Douglas Coutinho was unanimously elected the President of Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott while outgoing president Rui da Silva along with Joe Antao were elected the Vice Presidents. At the General Body meeting held on 14th April 2012, Julio D’Silva was elected as General Secretary for a second term and Ashley Antao was elected as the Joint Secretary while Darwin Cardozo was elected as the Treasurer. The following were elected as managing committee members: Anthony Pereira, Remy Furtado, Alzira Fernandes, Benedito Fernandes, Irene Antao,...
read moreGram Sabha Chandor Cavorim 25-March-2012
The Chandor Cavorim Gram Sabha on Sunday condoled the death of Tourism Minister Matanhy Saldanha and also urged the new Panchayat body that will be elected not to rotate the chair of the Sarpanch between them for a certain period of time. Breaking the convention, the Gram Sabha began with the motion of condolence which was adopted unanimously following which a minute’s silence was observed as a mark of respect to Matanhy Saldanha for the social activist that he was. The Gram Sabha also adopted congratulatory motions congratulating the new...
read moreNew MLA for Cuncolim 07-March-2012
Cuncolim constituency voters for the third time in history went against the normal trend of voting for the Congress or its erstwhile avatar of United Goans candidate and elected Subhash alias Rajan Naik as its MLA much against expectations and giving a great shock to the establishment. For the record, in 1977 when the Congress was facing a strong resentment following the emergency, at the Assembly elections held in Goa, Cuncolim elected then Advocate and now retired High Court Justice Ferdino Rebello who was the Janata Party candidate. Then...
read moreHow Joaquim Alemao Lost Cuncolim constituency
The Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Subhash alias Rajan Naik emerged victorious from Cuncolim only on the strength of the votes that he polled in the Cuncolim Municipal Council and Balli Village Panchayat areas. While he trailed at third position in four panchayat areas and was in the second position at one, he swept the Balli Panchayat area. In the three booths of Macasana where the BJP polled only 84 votes, it was positioned fourth with Independent candidate John Monteiro leading with 630 votes followed by Joaquim Alemao who polled 410 and...
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