Betqui or Betki is a village in the Ponda ''taluka'' (sub-district) of
Goa
Goa () is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. It is located between the Indian states of Maharashtra to the north and Karnataka to the ...
.
Area, population
Its location code on the 2011 Census of India is 626844.
According to the official 2011 Census, Betqui or Betki in Ponda ''taluka'' has an area of 629 hectares, a total of 382 households, a population of 1,707 (comprising 871 males and 836 females) with an under-six population of 151 (comprising 77 boys and 74 girls).
Location
Betqui is located in the north-eastern corner of
Ponda ''taluka''.
It is near to
Candola
Candola is a village and census town in Ponda Sub-District, North Goa district in the state of Goa, India. It is located in the ''Novas Conquistas'' region of the state. or
Khandola,
Orgao Orgao is a village in Ponda taluka, North Goa district
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 ...
,
Banastarim and
Volvoi
Volvoi is a village in Ponda taluka, Goa, India.
It has its own Volvoi village panchayat
Gram Panchayat () is a basic village-governing institute in Indian villages. It is a democratic structure at the grass-roots level in India. It is a ...
.
Postal services
Betki B.O. is a delivery-based branch office, connected to the
Marcela
Marcela is a feminine given name which may refer to:
Musicians
*Marcela Bovio, Mexican musician
* Marcela Lucatelli (born 1988), Brazilian composer
* Marcela Morelo, Argentine singer-songwriter
* Marcela RodrÃguez, Mexican composer
Politicians ...
S.O. which lies under the Goa Division of the Panaji Region and the Maharashtra Circle for postal services.
Betki's PIN code is 403107. It is located in
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 t ...
. Betki shares this PIN code with
Amona Amona may refer to:
Places
* Amona, Goa, a village in Goa, India
*Amona, Mateh Binyamin, an Israeli outpost in the central West Bank
*Isla de Mona, known in the pre-Columbian era as Amona
Other
*"Amona", a song on the album ''Necessary Evil
A ne ...
B.O.,
Banastarim B.O.,
Cumbharjua B.O. and the
Marcela
Marcela is a feminine given name which may refer to:
Musicians
*Marcela Bovio, Mexican musician
* Marcela Lucatelli (born 1988), Brazilian composer
* Marcela Morelo, Argentine singer-songwriter
* Marcela RodrÃguez, Mexican composer
Politicians ...
B.O.
Environment
The Betki-Khandola area was said to be the centre of
illegal sand mining
Sand theft or unauthorised or illegal sand mining leads to a widely unknown global example of natural and non-renewable resource depletion problem comparable in extent to global water scarcity. Beach theft is illegal removal of large quantities ...
in December 2020.
According to Rajendra P. Kerkar, writing in 2018, the Mandodarichem ''tollem'' in Betqui is one of Goa's largest "man-made lakes".
But the lake has silted and faced sustained neglect over the years.
The lake is associated with the ancient
Shree Mandodari Temple.
References
Villages in North Goa district
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