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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Pirna
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| settlement_type = village
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Goa, India
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| subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Goa]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[North Goa]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[Talukas of Goa|Taluka]]
| subdivision_name3 = [[Bardez]]
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| leader_title = Sarpanch
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| demographics1_title1 = Official
| demographics1_info1 = [[Konkani language|Konkani]]
| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
| utc_offset1 = +5:30
| postal_code_type = [[Postal Index Number|PIN]]
| postal_code = 403513
| registration_plate = GA 03
| blank2_name_sec1 = Nearest city
| blank2_info_sec1 = [[Mapusa]]
| blank3_name_sec1 = [[Lok Sabha]] constituency
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'''Pirna''' is a village in the [[North Goa]] sub-district or ''taluka'' of [[Bardez]] and is located in the northern edge of the sub-district. It is close to the [[Colvale river]] and is the home of the 150-metre long [[Pirna-Ozarim]] bridge at Thorli Chandai. The bridge connects Pirna in [[Bardez]] ''taluka'' with [[Pernem]] ''taluka''. It was inaugurated in May 2006.<ref name="IDM">{{Cite web|last=Jul 4|first=TNN /|last2=2017|last3=Ist|first3=03:54|title=Abode of the missing holy man {{!}} Goa News - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/abode-of-the-missing-holy-man/articleshow/59432042.cms|access-date=2020-11-10|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref>

==Location==
Pirna is bounded on its west by the village of [[Nadora]] and [[Bicholim]] sub-district of ''taluka'' lies on its east. It is near to the [[Amthane dam]], an important water supply project in [[North Goa]].

Since it lies at one end of Bardez, it is surrounded by villages in two different sub-districts -- [[Mencurem]] and [[Advalpal]] in [[Bicholim]] ''taluka'' and [[Ozarim]] in [[Pernem]] ''taluka''.<ref name="IDM" /> Its neighbouring village of Advalpal in Bicholim is the abode of numerous temples.<ref>{{Cite web|last=May 7|first=TNN /|last2=2018|last3=Ist|first3=03:59|title=Where temples and kulagars give you solace {{!}} Goa News - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/where-temples-and-kulagars-give-you-solace/articleshow/64056410.cms|access-date=2020-11-10|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref>

This village is located around 28.5 kilometres from the state-capital
[[Panjim]] or [[Panaji]], and lies in the interiors of [[Bardez]].<ref name="IDM" />

For postal purposes, the village is serviced from the nearby village of
[[Colvale]].

==Area, population==
Pirna covers an area of 990.11 hectares and has a total of 632 households.<ref name="Census">{{Cite book|last=|first=|title=Census of India, 2011 Goa: Series 31, Part XIIB: District Census Handbook, North Goa. Village and Townwise Primary Census Abstracts.|publisher=Directorate of Census Operations, Goa|year=2014|isbn=|location=|pages=102}}</ref> Its population comprises 2,568 persons—1,267 males and 1,301 females.<ref name="Census" /> Its under-six population comprises 250 children, of whom 123 were boys and 127 girls, as per the 2011 official Census.<ref name="Census" />

==Geography==
Pirna has a total of seven ''panchayat'' wards or ''vadde'', the typical
sub-divisions of a village in Goa. It also has 11 traditional ''vadde''—including Talap, Gaunkar, Dessai, Sutar, Thorli, Chandal, Naik, Mesta, Kel.<ref name="IDM" />

==Setting==
Pirna has a canopy of green covering it—coconut palms, cashew plantations and rice paddy fields.<ref name="IDM" /> It is home to water bodies and old temples.

==Culture==
Pirna has gained fame for excelling at the all-India level for its [[Marathi language|Marathi]] plays (''nataks'') which were produced by the local Astha Gandha Society.<ref name="IDM" />

Hanumant Kambli, the Goan artist and art professor, hails from Pirna, though currently based at [[Ribandar]]. Other persons from the area include former opening batsman for India and Bombay Ranji team ex-captain Sudhir Naik, nephrologist-renal specialist Dr Arun Halarnkar,<ref name="IDM" />

Other notable persons connected to the village and residents include poet-RJ Sangam Bhonsule, Marathi singer Kishor Dessai, ''tabla'' maker Pandurang Parab, freedom fighters, poet Govind Shantaram Sinai Bhonsule, social activist Manoj Parab who founded the Revolutionary Goans, among others.<ref name="IDM" />

==Shrines==
Pirna's church is dedicated to [[St. Francis Xavier]] and was
elevated as a parish in 1962.<ref name="AD">{{Cite book|last=|first=|title=Archdiocese of Goa and Daman: Directory 2012-13|publisher=The Diocesan Centre for Social Communications Media|year=2012|isbn=|location=|pages=94}}</ref> It is located in Mesta Vaddo, and was originally built in 1792 as a chapel. It is affiliated to the Our Lady of Victory Church at [[Revora]].

Shantadurga Temple at Talap Vaddo has a seven-day ''bhajan saptah''
(festival of ''bhajans'') held after Diwali. Hanuman temple is
four-and-half centuries old and locateda t Thorli Chandei. Its festivals
are inMarch-April. The Shiva temple at Tirthacho Mulo is near a waterfall
which surfaced there after 42 years in 2001–02. The Shri Rashtroli Brahman Temple lies in the area.

==Convents and schools==
Pirna is also home to the Gerosa Convent, run by the Maria Bambian Sisters
(SCCG).<ref name="AD" /> The Shantadurga Higher Secondary School was set up in 1963 at Talap Vaddo, and runs classes from Std I to XII, in the English medium.<ref name="IDM" /> Its higher secondary offers education in the [[Arts]] and [[Commerce]] streams.

==Milk society==
The Pirna Dudh (Milk) Society is a centre of economic activity, based out of Talap Vaddo. It collects milk from about 70 villages and provides about 1600 litres of milk daily to the centralised network of the [[Goa Dairy]],
according to journalist Isidore Domnick Mendis.<ref name="IDM" />

==Issues==
In 2017, villagers were noted as raising issues of poor electricity supply
to the village.

==Notes==
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[[Category:Cities and towns in North Goa district]]

Pirna, Goa - Revision history

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