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  Cuncolim Municipality report card Who cares for Cuncolim Freedom Fighters? Cuncolim Freedom Fighters memorial in miserable condition The monument is in poor shape and being misused by members of the public Due to the negligence of Municipal Council the memorial is now abandoned and have lost its glory as CMC failed to maintain it and hence this memorial lost its glory     Cuncolim is the land of the freedom fighters but that is all history. Shift to the present age and no cares for history and the freedom fighters who laid down their lives for Goa’s liberation. Cuncolkars have a pointed question to ask to Cuncolim Muncipal Council (CMC) Chairperson Laxman Naik and to the other councilors of the #smartCuncolim council headed by Congress …… Why they have not been able to renovate and refurbish the Freedom Fighters memorial and Children Park even after ten months in office. Due to the negligence of the present and past Municipal Council the memorial is no...

  Dr Jorson makes rapid strides in Cuncoilm Rivals have no strategy to stop his galloping popularity Restore to cheap tactics of ‘fake activism’     Congress fake video of ‘fake activism’ back fires as a section of society cutting against party lines condemn the move.   Dr Jorson Fernandes, the TMC candidate is moving at a rapid pace and has won the hearts of many a people who were seating on the face on whom to vote for the coming elections. With exactly a month to go for the elections the humble doctor is emerging s forerunner in race to get to the Goa assembly in the upcoming elections.’ The ENT surgeon is not new to the Cuncolim politics and to the constituency. The constituency might have changed have under a few changes in the delimitation process but by large retains the core villages . Cuncolim municipal area, which constitute the major chunk of voters, Chandor, Macazana,   Guirdlim, Balli and Ambaulim form part of the constituency wher...

  Jhansi is celebrating the 150th anniversary of India’s ‘first war of independence’ next year. The 1857 war for independence from British rule has been well documented in history books. But that is not the case with Goa. UNLIKE OTHER parts of India, Goa, a small state on the western coast, was ruled by the Portuguese from 1510 to 1961. British rule ended in 1947. In Focus   An uprising against the colonial Portuguese rulers launched by a small village, Cuncolim, some 48 kilometres from the state capital of Panjim in 1583 has gone largely unnoticed.   The Portuguese first conquered  Goa  in 1510 and Cuncolim was the first uprising that the Portuguese had to face in Goa apart from the organised armies and rulers who fought different wars with them over a period of time.   The villagers of Cuncolim, comprised mostly of Khastriyas (a warrior caste) who rendered services for different armies of different rulers, fought the war over forceful conversions and the ...

Cuncolim freedom fighters memorial in bad shape, municipality has no money for maintenance