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Mapusa
Mapusa () is a city in North Goa, India. It is situated 13 km north of the state capital of Panaji. The city is the headquarters of Bardez taluka. It is located on the main highway NH-17, linking Mumbai to Kochi. During Portuguese India, the city was known as "Mapuçá". History Mapusa is a small city clustered around the Mount (Alto). The name Mapusa is thought to be derived from the Konkani word for a 'measure' - 'map' and the phrase fill up - 'sa'. Ancient Goan agrarian community had a well established '' Gaunkari'' or Community Farming System, where villages formed associations, worked on community land and shared profits. Market day was a major event, with goods brought in from every district to one central area. Mapusa has thus remained a prominent market center for many centuries. Geography Mapusa is located at . It has an average elevation of 15 metres (49 feet). It lies on the banks of Mapusa River. Mapusa has a tropical climate with temperatures ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mapusa (Goa Assembly Constituency)
Mapusa Assembly constituency is one of the 40 assembly constituencies of Goa, a southern state of India. Mapusa is also one of the 20 constituencies that comes under North Goa Lok Sabha constituency. It is part of North Goa district. Members of Legislative Assembly Election results Assembly Election 2022 Assembly By-election 2019 Assembly Election 2017 Assembly Election 2012 Assembly Election 2007 Assembly Election 2002 Assembly Election 1999 Assembly Election 1994 Assembly Election 1989 Assembly Election 1984 Assembly Election 1980 Assembly Election 1977 Assembly Election 1972 Assembly Election 1967 See also * Mapusa * List of constituencies of Goa Legislative Assembly The Goa Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Goa on the west coast of India. Its seat is at Porvorim, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mapusa Market
Mapusa Municipal Market (also known as Mapusa Market and Mapusa Friday Market) is a traditional market in Mapusa, North Goa and a major tourist attraction. It was built in 1960, the first planned market in Goa. The market has three blocks with 164 shops, some of which have been sub-divided, so bringing the total to 173. It is open every day, except Sunday; and is particularly popular on Friday mornings. The trade Goan vendors come in from the surrounding villages to sell their locally grown or manufactured wares, such as spices, fruits, jewellery, pottery, chickens, incense and carpets. Many of the stalls in the bazaar are grouped by type of goods, with special areas for straw hats, Goan home-made chouriço and the like. Strings of Goan chouriço, spiced and marinated pork sausages, seedless tamarind, or ''amot'' are also traded. Gallery File:Crowded Mapusa Friday Market Redo.jpg, The huge crowds File:Cloth on Sale at Mapusa Friday Market Final.jpg, Cloth and other materia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mapusa Municipal Council
Mapusa municipal council is the municipality of Mapusa, the main commercial town in North Goa, located in the Bardez taluka. Location The municipality office and premises was till recently based at Feira Alta, on the slope going up to the Altinho locality of Mapusa Mapusa () is a city in North Goa, India. It is situated 13 km north of the state capital of Panaji. The city is the headquarters of Bardez taluka. It is located on the main highway NH-17, linking Mumbai to Kochi. During Portuguese Indi .... It has now been shifted to the renovated old school premises where the St Mary's Convent previously functioned. External linksMapusa Municipal Council official website Mapusa Municipalities of India {{India-gov-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua D'Souza
Joshua Peter De Souza (born 12 November 1988) is an Indian politician who was elected to the Goa Legislative Assembly in the by-election in 2019 as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. On 22 July 2022 he was elected as the Deputy Speaker of Goa Legislative Assembly with a majority of 24-12 votes against Siolim Congress MLA Delilah Lobo. Currently, he is the Member of the Legislative Assembly of Mapusa Constituency, National General Secretary of Bharatiya Janta Party Minority Morcha, the Vice Chairman of Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation (GSIDC) and the Chairman of Mormugao Planning and Development Authority (MPDA). Besides that, he is also a social worker and entrepreneur. Family background De Souza is the son of former Deputy Chief Minister of Goa Francis D'Souza who previously served in Mapusa as a councillor (1985-2000), mayor (1998-2000), and MLA (1999-2019). De Souza's father died on 14 February 2019 at the age of 64, following a battle with cancer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mapusa River
Mapusa River (Rio de Mapuça) is one of the main tributaries of the River Mandovi in Goa, India. The river originates from the jungles of Dumacem and Amthane, meanders eastward and then southward before it drains itself in the Mandovi river at Penha de France. Mapusa River has separated Corjuem from mainland Aldona. The Assonora River is the main tributary of Mapusa River. It is situated 12 km from the mapusa city which is a capital of the Bardez taluka and is one of the largest towns of Goa. It flows 20 kilometres in western direction. Penha de Franca church is situated on the junction of the River Mapusa and River Mandovi. Mapusa is the largest town located on the banks of the river. Tributaries Western tributaries Surla river starts flowing from the western ghats of the Maharashtra and In Goa it originates at the surla forests. It gain the flow of stream at the sattari region in where the Mandrichi and deuchi rivers join. Ragoda River is originated in the elevati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bardez
''Bardez'' or ''Bardes'' ( IPA: ) is a ''taluka'' of the North Goa district in the Indian state of Goa. Etymology The name is credited to the Saraswat Brahmin immigrants who emigrated to the Konkan via Magadha plains in northern India. Bardez, or more properly ''bara'' (twelve) ''desh'' (country), means "twelve countries" (or territories). The form 'country' probably refers to clan territorial limits, or to the Brahmin '' comunidades'', of which the twelve are: # Aldona # Anjuna # Assagao # Candolim # Moira # Nachinola # Olaulim # Pomburpa # Saligao # Sangolda # Serula # Siolim Bardez is delimited on the north by the Chapora River, on the south by the Mandovi River, on the east by the Mapusa River, which originates in Bardez itself near the capital city of Mapusa, and on the west by the Arabian Sea. A native of Bardez is called a ''Bardeskar'' or ''Bardescar'' ( IPA: ) in the Konkani language. Bardez is the site of the legislature of Goa, in the southern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goa University
Goa University is a public state university headquartered in the city of Panaji, in the Indian state of Goa. The traditions of Goa University date back to the 17th century,Prôa, Miguel Pires. "Escolas Superiores" Portuguesas Antes de 1950 (esboço). Blog Gavetas Com Saber. 2008 with the creation of the first university courses by the Portuguese Empire.Digby, Anne; Ernst, Waltraud. Crossing Colonial Historiographies: Histories of Colonial and Indigenous Medicines In Transnational Perspective. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2010 However, it was only after the annexation of Goa that the process was consolidated, with the University of Mumbai establishing a Centre for Post-Graduate Instruction and Research (CPIR) in Panaji. The CPIR offered affiliation to the first colleges that were instituted in Goa in June 1962. Was established under the Goa University Act of 1984 (Act No. 7 of 1984) and commenced operations on 1 June 1985, replacing CPIR. The university offers graduate an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Goa (Lok Sabha Constituency)
North Goa Lok Sabha constituency (formerly, Panaji Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the two Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Goa state in western India along with South Goa. Assembly segments Presently, North Goa Lok Sabha parliamentary constituency comprises 20 Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) constituencies: Members of Parliament Election results 2024 general election 2019 general election 2014 general election 2009 general election As Panaji constituency 2004 general election References See also * North Goa district * List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha, the Lower House of the Parliament of India, is made up of Members of Parliament ( MPs). Each member of parliament represents a single geographic constituency. The maximum size of the Lok Sabha as outlined in the Constitution of ... {{DEFAULTSORT:North Goa (Lok Sabha Constituency) Lok Sabha constituencies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Karnataka to the east, by South Goa district to the south, and by the Arabian Sea to the west. Historical background At the advent of the Portuguese in AD 1510, all of today's northern territories ( Ilhas, Bardez, Pernem, Bicholim, Antruz, and Sattari) were part of the Bijapur Sultanate. Ilhas and Bardez were annexed by the Portuguese after their successful conquest and the region is now called '' Velhas Conquistas'' (Old Conquests). After the fall of the Deccan sultanates and rise of the Marathas in the late 1600s, the remaining region eventually fell under the control of the Maratha Kingdom of Sawantwadi until AD 1783. These territories were seen as safe haven for the Hindus, Muslims and new-Christians who fled the Portuguese Inquisit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saraswat Vidyalaya
Saraswat Vidyalaya is an educational institution located in Khorlim, Mapusa, Goa, India. It was founded as a primary school by the Saraswat Education Society in March 1911, and gave instruction in the Marathi language. The original school building near to Mapusa police station survives and was repurposed as a bank after the school moved to Khorlim. Saraswat Vidyalaya is now a high school with feeder units of pre-primary and primary. On the same site, the Society also manages Purushottam Walawalkar Higher Secondary School, founded in 1988 and Sridora Caculo (formerly Saraswat Vidyalaya’s) College of Commerce & Management Studies, established in 1991. In June 1984, the society has established Swar-Shrungar, a music school where tabla, harmonium, flute and vocal music are taught. Besides the general streams, the higher secondary manages vocational courses in Auto Engineering Technology, Office Secretaryship/Stenography and Accountancy and Auditing, Floriculture and Landscaping ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panaji
Panaji (; , , )also known as Panjim, is the capital of the Indian state of Goa and the headquarters of North Goa district. Previously, it was the territorial capital of the former Portuguese India. It lies on the banks of the Mandovi river estuary in the Tiswadi sub-district (''taluka''). With a population of 114,759 in the metropolitan area, Panaji is Goa's largest urban agglomeration, ahead of Margao and Mormugao. Panaji has terraced hills, concrete buildings with balconies and red-tiled roofs, churches, and a riverside promenade. There are avenues lined with gulmohar, acacia and other trees. The baroque Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Church, Goa, Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Church is located overlooking the main square known as Praça da Igreja. Panaji has been selected as one of a hundred Indian cities to be developed as a smart city under the Smart Cities Mission. Panaji's HDI is almost around 0.90, and is considered to be the best amongst other major Indi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
