Near Civil Court, Mapusa Goa
Mapusa , Bardez Goa- 403507

ABOUT US

LOGOThe Municipality formerly known as ‘Câmara Municipal de Bardez’ (or CMB during the erstwhile Portuguese regime) began its full -fledged functioning from 1842, following the enactment of the Administrative Code in 1836. The building was later constructed in 1854, and the offices of the ‘Administrator das Comunidades’ and ‘Câmara Agrária’ were located in this building.

The Athaide Municipal Library, which still draws a lot of people specially to read newspapers and magazines in the evenings, is located in the building. This institution then, too. possessed a number of valuable publications. It was established back in 1883.

Initially, the CMB controlled Mapusa and all other villages in Bardez. CMB had four councillors who were all nominated. They earned no pay but had to attend regular meetings. Res-olutions were passed and implemented.

The last elected President of the Camara Municipal de Bardez of the Portuguese regime was Dr. Antonio Pinto do Rosario, who held the office from 195o to 1966. He passed away on September 5, 1969.

Some time after Liberation, Vinayak Sawkar was appointed Chairperson by the first Chief Minister of Goa, the late Dayanand B. Bandodkar. Sawkar continued in office till 1970, when the Camara De Bardez was converted into the Mapusa Municipality through laws that were also applied to other civic bodies too in the State.

From November 11, 1970 till February 5, 1982, the Munici-pality had the following elected Presidents:

President Period
 1. Jairam Sirsat 06-11-1970 to 29-04-1971
 2. B. M. Karekar 30-04-1971 to 14-09-1972
 3. J. B. Clement D’Souza 16-02-1973 to 30-11-1973
 4. Phyllis Faria 01-12-1973 to 13-12-1974
 5. Shyamsunder J. Neogi 14-12-1974 to 31-03-1976
 6. Suresh G. Amonkar 01-04-1976 to 05-10-1976
 7. Motilal Bandekar 06-10-1976 to 05-02-1982

 

From 1982 to 1985, administrators were in change:

Administrator Period
 1. A. K. Mathur (I.A.S.) 05-02-1982 to 03-11-1982
 2. Rakesh Mohan (I.A.S.) 04-11-1982 to 01-03-1983
 3. Y. P. Suri (I.A.S.) 02-03-1983 to 09-01-1984
 4. Jose Phillip 10-01-1984 to 20-06-1985

 

From 1985 to 1990, elected presidents ran the municipality:

Presidents Period
  1. Prabhakar B. Vernekar  21-6-1985 to 04-08-1985
  2. Adv. Francis C.J.A. D’Souza  14-08-1986 to 05-07-1988
  3. Adv. Subhash G. Narvekar  21-07-1988 to 20-06-1990

Between 1990 and 1995, at the helm were:

 Administrator   Period 
 1. J.B. Singh (I.A.S.)  21-06-1990 to 18-02-1992
 2. D.A. Hawaldar (I.A.S.)  19-02-1992 to 20-06-1993
 3. L.J. Menezes Pais  21-06-1993 to 20-07-1994
 4. P.S. Reddy (I.A.S.)  21-07-1994 to 20-01-1991
 5. Dr. M. Modassir (I.A.S.)  21-01-1995 to 20-06-1995

Municipality sources say the word ‘President’ was getting mixed up with that of the President of India, so the desig-nation was changed to ‘Chairperson’. Mapusa Municipality had the following Chairpersons from June 20, 1995 till date:.

Chairperson Period
 1. Prabhavati P. Vernekar   20-06-1995 to 25-10-1995
 2. Mathew Braganza 03-11-1995 to 11-08-1997
 3. Adv. Subhash G. Narvekar    25-08-1997 to 24-06-1998
 4. Adv. Francis C.J.A. D’Souza  27-07-1998 to 24-10-2000
 5. Michael J. Carrasco  24-10-2000 to 13-01-2003
 6. Sudhir R. Kandolkar  20-01-2003 to 07-07-2004
 7. Michael J. Carrasco  12-07-2004 to 06-01-2005
 8. Sandeep H. Falari 01-02-2005 to 29-06-2005
 9. Armindo J. Braganza   05-07-2005 to 25-10-2005
 10. Ujwala S. Kandolkar  18-11-2005 to 18-04-2006
 11. Sneha S. Bhobe 18-04-2006 to 04-12-2008
 12. Rupa (Renuka) Bhakta 17-12-2008 to 31-10-2010
 13. Sudhir R. Kandolkar 11-11-2010- to 20-08-2011
 14. Ashish T. Shirodkar 20-08-2011 to 20-03-2012
 15. Sudhir R. Kandolkar 20-03-2012 to date

 

They were duly supported by the following Vice-Chairpersons from June 20, 1995 till date:

Vice-Chairperson Period
 1. Maria N. Carvalho  20-06-1995 to 16-10-1995
 2. Sudhir R. Kandolkar 16-10-1995 to 10-10-1996
 3. Maria N. Carvalho 10-10-1996 to 19-06-1998
 4. Deepak V. Dangui 27-07-1998 to 24-10-2000
 5. Sudhir R. Kandolkar 24-10-20oo to 20-01-2003
 6. Prakash V. Bhivshet 28-01-2003 to 16-07-2004
 7. Sandeep H. Falari 24-07-2004 to 27-01-2005
 8. Prakash V. Bhivshet 15-02-2005 to 23-10-2005
 9. Ryan Braganza 18-11-2005 to 22-01-2007
 10. Vinod Phadke 06-02-2007 to 11-06-2007
 11. Oscar J. D’Souza 03-07-2007 to 11-11-2010
12. Vijeta A. Naik 11-11-2010 till date