Sanquelim is a town and

municipal council A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area. Depending on the location and classification of the municipality it may be known as a city council, town council, town board, community council, borough cou ...

North Goa North Goa district is one of the two districts that constitutes the state of Goa, India. The district has an area of , and is bounded by Kolhapur and Sindhudurg districts of Maharashtra state to the north and by Belgavi district of Karnatak ...

district in the

Indian state India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, for a total of 36 subnational entities. The states and union territories are further subdivided into 800 districts and smaller administrative divisions by the respe ...

of Goa.

Geography

Sanquelim is situated in the Bicholim Taluka of

. It has an average elevation of 78 metres (256 feet).

Demographics

, Sanquelim had a population of 13,651. Males constitute 51.8% of the population and females 48.2%. Sanquelim has an average literacy rate of 91.5%, higher than the national average of 74.04%: male literacy is 94.22%, and female literacy is 91.48%. In Sanquelim, 10% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Government and politics

Sanquelim is part of Sanquelim (Goa Assembly constituency) and North Goa (Lok Sabha constituency). Following the

delimitation Electoral boundary delimitation (or simply boundary delimitation or delimitation) is the drawing of boundaries of electoral precincts and related divisions involved in elections, such as Federated state, states, counties or other municipalities ...

of constituencies in 2008, Sanquelim was established as a separate assembly constituency.

Pratap Prabhakar Gauns Pratap Prabhakar Gauns or Pratap Prabhakar Gawas (born 2 August 1963) is an Indian politician from the state of Goa. He was elected to the Goa Legislative Assembly election as a member of the Indian National Congress party in 2008. He won agains ...

of the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party, or simply the Congress, is a political parties in India, political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first mo ...

became the first elected Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Sanquelim, after winning the 2008 by-election for the erstwhile Pale constituency. During his tenure, Shri Pratap Prabhakar Gauns initiated several key development projects in the constituency, including the establishment of the Ravindra Bhavan Sanquelim, the

Goa Institute of Management The Goa Institute of Management (abbreviated as GIM-Goa) is an Indian autonomous business school located North Goa district in the state of Goa. GIM Goa was founded in 1993 by Romuald D'Souza, a Jesuit priest. History Before founding GIM Goa, ...

, the Primary Health Centre Sanquelim, a garbage treatment plant, a swimming pool, and a sewage treatment plant in Sanquelim.

References

Cities and towns in North Goa district {{Goa-geo-stub