Gomant Vidhya Niketan, vasco, Goa India

After Portugal became a republic in 1910, Margao based Hindus used the end of religious discrimination and their new found freedom to establish this noble institution on on March 19, 1912. It was then known as Saraswat Brahman Samaj (renamed to the present in Nov-1962) and ran a public library at the southern end of Abade Faria road. The present building housing the library in the rear of the ground floor and an auditorium upstairs  venue of most of Konkani and Marathi stage shows to this date was built 1965. The society also runs a physio-therapy centre from rented premises further down the road.