Sircaim (or Sirsaim) is a village situated in the

Bardez ''Bardez'' ( kok, Bardes; pt, Bardes; IPA: ) is a ''taluka'' of the North Goa district in the Indian state of Goa. It was a ''concelho'' in the Portuguese State of India before 1961. Etymology The name is credited to the Saraswat Br ...

sub-district or ''taluka'' 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 ...

, which lies along the west-coast of

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. It lies close to or within the mining belt of

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 ...

. It is home to a football academy for youth, and a jetty for iron-ore transportation. Though located in

, it has also been involved in mining activities which are otherwise mainly based in

Bicholim Bicholim, pronounced (), also known as Divchal and Dicholi, is a town and a municipal council in North Goa district in the state of Goa, India. It is the headquarters of the ''Concelho'' (district) of Bicholim, one of seven that make up the No ...

and other sub-districts of Goa.

Area and population

It has an area of 377 hectares, and 713 households. Its population of 2,850 comprises 1,442 males and 1,408 females. In the 0-6 age group, it has a population of 217 children, of whom 117 are male and 100 are female.

Literacy

Of its population 2,422 are literate (1,254 males and 1,168 females), according to the 2011

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Sircaim jetty

Sircaim is home to a jetty, from which one mining company - describing itself as a trader (in ore) -- had some 10,117 metric tonnes of ore at Sircaim in May 2018, around the time when curbs on the processing and exporting of iron ore from Goa were in place due to governmental and court restrictions. This issue came up when the High Court of Bombay at Goa declined to grant relief to mining companies and traders who were seeking a modification of the court's interim order stopping the transportation of privately mined ore in Goa. Among the companies operationation at Sircaim were ILPL, the Formento Mining-linked Infrastructure Logistics Private Limited, and NRB (NRB Group founded by Narayan R Bandekar), both connected with the jetty.

Industrial plans

In December 2012, the

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announced plans for a new industrial estate at Sircaim spread over an area of 835,000 square metres, together with new such estates in Tuem (phase III and IV),

Sancoale Sancoale is a census town in South Goa district in the Indian state of Goa. It falls within the Sub-District of Mormugão and the Velhas Conquistas region. It is famous for being the hometown of Joseph Vaz, the patron saint of Sri Lanka. Chur ...

(phase IV),

Poinguinim Poinguinim is a village in the Canacona taluka administrative region of Goa, India, near the Goa-Karnataka border, and close to the Cotigao Wildlife Sanctuary. The village is home to a population of 6,625 people as of the 2011 census. The name ...

Canacona Canacona () is a city and a municipal council in the district of South Goa, Goa state, India. Canacona taluka includes Patnem, Chaudi, Poinguinim, Loliem-Polem, Agonda, and Gaumdongre. Chaudi is the headquarters and the most developed town in t ...

and

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Church

The Our Lady of Miracles Church is located in Sircaim.

Banks

It has branches of the

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and the

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in the village.

Post office

Sircaim has its post office (a branch office), under the

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of 403502. It is a non-delivery office, coming under the nearby postal ''taluk'' of

, within the

postal division, the

Panaji Panaji (; also known as Panjim) is the capital of the Indian state of Goa and the headquarters of North Goa district. Previously, it was the territorial capital of the former Portuguese India. It lies on the banks of the Mandovi river estuary ...

postal region and the

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postal circle.

Football academy

Sircaim is home to one of the two Sesa Football Academy premises in Goa, the other being at Sanquelim. The

Sesa Football Academy Sesa Football Academy (SFA) is a football academy based in Sanquelim, Goa. Originally founded in the 1960s as Sesa Sports Club, its football team competes in the Goa Professional League, and previously participated in NFL II and I-League 2nd D ...

Ground is at Sircaim.

References

Villages in North Goa district {{Goa-geo-stub