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The Village Panchayat of Chimbel is located on the hills of Sahyadri Range. It consists of the revenue villages of Chimbel and part of Morombi-O-Grande. The V.P. Chimbel forms a part of Santa Cruz Assembly constituency and Chimbel Zilla Panchayat constituency.

The Santa Cruz Constituency is represented by Shri. Rudolf Fernandes in the Goa Legislative Assembly, whereas the Chimbel Zilla Panchayat Constituency is represented by Girish Uskaikar.

The Village Panchayat of Chimbel is headed by its Sarpanch Mr. Sandesh A. Shirodkar (Ward No. 6) along with the ward members listed below.

The first Sarpanch of the Village Panchayat of Chimbel was Mr. Simon Wences Pereira in the year 1963. There are many stalwart Sarpanchas and Panch members who have been elected repeatedly for more than two terms.

The Village Panchayat house is a Portuguese era building near a lake which used to supply drinking water to the city of Panjim. There are other beautiful lakes and ponds in the village used for irrigation. The Chimbelkarin lake is famous: as folklore goes, Goddess Chimbelakrin, the village deity, used to visit this lake to refresh herself and sit on the black stone in the field opposite the Asylum, which can be seen even today. It is also said that with the blessing of the goddess, gold ornaments were given to the needy when called from the Chimbelakrin tali, especially during Zagor and other village festivals.

The village also houses an asylum for the needy which is run by the Government of Goa through its Institute of Public Assistance (Provedoria).

There are numerous temples in the village, such as the Chimbelakrin temple and Krishna temple at Govlem Bhat, Hanuman temple at Govlem Bhat and Datteshwar Colony, Sateri temple at Shirent and Gawant, Ram Mandir at Shirent and Manaswadda, Mahadev temple, Durgadevi temple, Chimbelkarin temple and Ayyappa temple at Indira Nagar, Maruti temple at Kirla Wadda and Krishna temple at Manaswadda.

There are two mosques at Indiranagar which are the prayer houses for our Muslim brethren.

The village is blessed with 3 chapels: the chapel of Imaculada Conceicao at Portais and the Chapel of Our Lady of Livre Febre are under the parish of Our Lady of Ajuda, Ribandar. The Chapel of Santa Barbara at Indira Nagar is under the parish of Our Lady of Merces, Merces. Besides these there are the chapels of St. Francis Xavier at Chinchwada, Santa Cruz and Holy Cross at Indiranagar. There is also the Zion Prayer House and the Bethel and Telugu Baptist Church at Indiranagar.

The education of the village is taken care of by village schools like the Union Primary and High School, Little Star Primary School, three Government primary schools and one Government high school. The Jaded Urdu School takes care of students of the Urdu language.

The people of Chimbel are hospitable and live in harmony with each other and with nature. The main occupation of the people is farming. The farmers grow local vegetables and paddy during the Rabi and Kharif seasons. The Chimbel Ridge Gourd (Gosalle) is known throughout Goa; besides ridge gourd, people grow chillies, lady finger, long beans, musk melons, bitter gourd, cucumber and snake gourd.

Vision

The vision of the Village Panchayat is to set up a garbage treatment plant with segregation facility to generate bio gas and to undertake house-to-house garbage collection, with the motto to keep Chimbel clean & green. As it is rightly said, “cleanliness is next to godliness”, and we wish to make Chimbel a model village in Goa.