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19-594: Ponda taluka is a subdivision of the district of north Goa , in the Indian state of Goa . Its administrative headquarters is the township of Ponda . Located in central Goa, it hosts many educational institutes and manufacturing industries. The Belgaum - Panjim highway passes through this taluka. Ponda lies in the North Goa district. Ponda taluka is known as the home for many prominent temples in Goa. The name of

38-449: A designated place within tehsil area known as tehsil headquarters. Tehsildar is the incharge of tehsil office. This is similar to district office or district collector at district level. Throughout India, there is a three-tier local body/Panchayat system within the state. At the top is the zila/zilla panchayat (parishad). Taluka/mandal panchayat/panchayat samiti/community development block is the second layer of this system and below them are

57-473: Is called the tehsildar or, less officially, the talukdar or taluka muktiarkar . Tehsil or taluk can be considered sub-districts in the Indian context. In some instances, tehsils overlap with " blocks " (panchayat union blocks or panchayat development blocks or cd blocks) and come under the land and revenue department, headed by the tehsildar; and blocks come under the rural development department, headed by

76-404: Is famous for five important temples (including Shri Mangues and Shri Mahalsa , lying between Mardol and Priol villages) situated around the town of Ponda and within the taluka, the largest mosque in Goa. Ponda is an important transport hub. The capital of this subdistrict of Ponda, also called Ponda (town or city), lies 28 km south east of the state-capital Panaji or Panjim . It

95-537: Is some 17 km north-east of Margao . In 1791, Ponda was taken over by the Portuguese, then ruling Goa, from the Raja of Sonda. It was annexed to what was then Goa along with the sub-districts of Quepem , Canacona and Sanguem . Its main town was built up during Portuguese rule, first as an administrative and court centre, and later a commercial centre. Ponda town was earlier part of Kavle village. Lying along

114-594: Is the sub-district of a district, similarly, Nayabat is the sub-tehsil of a tehsil. List of mandals in Andhra Pradesh A mandalam is a local government area in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana . The mandal system was introduced as an administrative reform to make governance more efficient by reducing the size of the larger, previously existing taluks. The decentralization aimed at improving revenue administration, record-keeping, and enhancing

133-760: The Panjim - Margao inland highway the avoids the Mandovi river, it is also a link between Goa and neighbouring Karnataka state, via the Ponda - Belgaum highway (NH4A). Goa College of Engineering is located in Farmaguddi village, in Ponda taluka , on the outskirts of Ponda town. Ponda taluka serves as the gateway to Goa's wildlife sanctuaries -- Bondla and the Mahavir Wildlife Sanctuary . At

152-471: The block development officer and serve different government administrative functions over the same or similar geographical area. Although they may on occasion share the same area with a subdivision of a revenue division, known as revenue blocks , the two are distinct. For example, Raipur district in Chhattisgarh state is administratively divided into 13 tehsils and 15 revenue blocks. Nevertheless,

171-442: The district , also sometimes translated as county . In neither case is the analogy very exact. Tehsildar is the chief or key government officer of each tehsil or taluka. In some states different nomenclature like talukdar, mamledar, amaldar, mandal officer is used. In many states of India, the tehsildar functions as the executive magistrate of that tehsil. Each tehsil will have an office called tehsil office or tehsildar office at

190-505: The taluka (sub-district) is the same as the main town or city, which is also Ponda . Ponda taluka has also been known as Antruz Mahal , which the official NIC site says is "because of the concentration of culture, music, drama and poetry also houses the temples of Lord Mangesh (Shiva), Lord Nagesh, Lord Ganapati, Lord Ramnath and the Goddesses Mhalasa and Shantdurga" It has been called the "Hindu heart of Goa". Ponda taluka

209-443: The gram panchayats or village panchayats. These panchayats at all three levels have elected members from eligible voters of particular subdivisions. These elected members form the bodies which help the administration in policy-making, development works, and bringing grievances of the common public to the notice of the administration. Nayabat is the lower part of tehsil which have some powers like tehsil. It can be understood as tehsil

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228-476: The most spoken languages in Ponda Taluka. Languages of Ponda Taluka (2011) At the time of 2011 Census of India, 69.05% of the population of Ponda Taluka spoke Konkani , 10.66% Marathi , 8.43% Hindi , 3.52% Kannada , 2.32% Urdu and 1.15% Malayalam as their first language. Hinduism is followed by the majority of population of Ponda Taluka. Christians and Muslims form significant minorities. At

247-639: The reach of the panchayati raj system. As part of the middle tier of the panchayati raj structure, mandals replaced the former panchayat samitis in Andhra Pradesh during the tenure of the Telugu Desam Party government led by N. T. Rama Rao on May 25, 1985. The reform was inspired by the recommendations of the Ashok Mehta Committee . The expectation was that the division of large taluks into smaller mandals would lead to more manageable administrative units and allow closer oversight of

266-495: The tehsil system. It is generally smaller than a tehsil, and is meant for facilitating local self-government in the panchayat system . In West Bengal , Bihar, Jharkhand, community development blocks are the empowered grassroots administrative unit, replacing tehsils. Tehsil office is primarily tasked with land revenue administration, besides election and executive functions. It is the ultimate executive agency for land records and related administrative matters. The chief official

285-552: The term tehsil is commonly used in all northern states . In Maharashtra , Gujarat , Goa , Karnataka , Kerala and Tamil Nadu , taluka or taluk is more common. In Eastern India , instead of tehsils, the term Subdivision is used in Bihar , Assam , Jharkhand and West Bengal , as well as large parts of Northeast India ( Manipur , Meghalaya , Mizoram , Sikkim and Tripura ). In Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland , they are called circle . Tehsil/tahsil and taluk/taluka and

304-504: The time of the 2011 Census of India 83.64% of the population of the Taluka followed Hinduism, 8.45% Christianity, 7.56% Islam and 0.35% of the population followed other religions or did not state religion. This article related to a location in the Indian state of Goa is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Tehsil In Andhra Pradesh and Telangana , a newer unit called mandal (circle) has come to replace

323-444: The time of the 2011 Census of India , Ponda had a population of 165,830 with sex ratio of 940 females to 1000 males. Ponda Taluka has an average literacy rate of 89.21%, higher than the national average of 74.04%: male literacy is 93.56% and female literacy is 84.58%. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 1.16% and 16.64% of the population respectively. 62.50% of the population lives in urban areas. Konkani and Marathi are among

342-801: The two are often conflated. India, as a vast country, is subdivided into many states and union territories for administrative purposes. Further divisions of these states are known as districts . These districts (zila/zilla) are again divided into many subdivisions , viz tehsils or taluks. These subdivisions are again divided into gram panchayats or village panchayats. Initially, this was done for collecting land revenue and administration purposes. But now these subdivisions are governed in tandem with other departments of government like education, agriculture, irrigation, health, police, etc. The different departments of state government generally have offices at tehsil or taluk level to facilitate good governance and to provide facilities to common people easily. In India,

361-488: The variants are used as English words without further translation. Since these terms are unfamiliar to English speakers outside the subcontinent , the word county has sometimes been provided as a gloss , on the basis that a tehsil, like a county, is an administrative unit hierarchically above the local city, town, or village, but subordinate to a larger state or province. India and Pakistan have an intermediate level of hierarchy (or more than one, at least in parts of India):

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