Alorna fort all set for makeover

Goa | Saturday | 11th November, 2017

Summary:

Chief minister Manohar Parrikar had assured the Goa assembly in August 2013 of a conservation project to restore it. Alorna panchayat has been petitioning the government to restore the fort. The fort is hardly 10 km east off NH 17, but it lies almost shrouded in a green curtain of a still pristine village. Alorna is a sleepy village with hardly any trace of other archaeological evidence, besides the fort.The fort with a polygonal enclosure and rampart walls of laterite stone has a walkway and parapet. The ravages of every monsoon season impacted the structure and parts of it collapsed with post-monsoon vegetation further accelerating the decay..