Torxem Panchayat consists of seven wards and a population of 3,128 people.
The seven elected members are Vilas Shetye, Prerna Pravin Shetye, Tulshidas Naik, Kamini Mabalankar, Britto D’Souza, Nilesh Mote, Suryakant Govind Toraskar and co-opted member Rajan Harijan.
Vilas Shetye became the Sarpanch and remained on the post for the full term. However, Kamini Mavalankar was replaced as deputy sarpanch by Prerna Pravin Shetye after one year in office.
As per the audit report, the financial status of the panchayat is stable. The sources of income for the Panchayat are house tax, professional tax and licence fees.
The house tax collection for last financial year was Rs 60,000 with due of around Rs 25,000; Rs 45,000 was collected as professional tax and due is Rs 60,000. Along with these, the panchayat also collects Rs 5,000 as advertising tax and Rs 6,000 from certificate tax. The licence fees are around Rs 7,600 per year.
This panchayat has village development committee, road safety committee, women and child development committee, standing committee and garbage committee. All these committees have been active.
Though the panchayat is housing a gymnasium of the Sports Authority of Goa, it does not collect rent. In the last five years, community hall was the major project completed by the panchayat under MPLAD fund.
The Panchayat also received Rs 34,54,284 under grants-in-aid, Rs 32,148 under fourteen finance and Rs 1,00,000 under garbage collection scheme.
Panchayat has engages two labourers for ten days in a month for garbage collection. The panchayat has two sheds along the highway for disposal of garbage with capacity of 250 tonnes each. This garbage later gets disposed at Saligao treatment plant.
The panchayat has regularly conducts ordinary and special gram sabhas with attendance of 40 to 60 people. The only issue discussed in all the gram sabhas was the air pollution caused by a cement crusher. After repeated protests, the owner of the cement crusher has taken safety measures reducing the pollution by 50 percent.
