On 5th October 1969 was born the eldest child of Jose Inacio Lourenco and Fernanda Melo Lourenco who was baptized as Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco with the first name being that of the Patron of their village Curtorim – St. Alex.
As helping people came naturally to Reginaldo Lourenco, he got more and more involved in social work, which in the course of time led to politics. In 2000 he was elected from Curtorim to the South Goa Zilla Parishad and in 2005, he became the chairperson of the South Goa Zilla
Parishad.
At the 2007 general elections to the Goa Legislative Assembly he was declared elected from the Curtorim constituency on 7th June 2007 in a battle akin to the Biblical fight between David and Goliath as Reginaldo Lourenco defeated a long serving MLA who had occupied various ministerial position including that of the Chief Minister.
Being a MLA, he has been appointed member of Committee on Petitions, Committee on Delegated Legislation, Committee on Public Undertakings and was appointed as Chairman of the Ad-hoc Committee on Education, Sports & Information and recently as Chairman of Committee on Government Assurances. Not one to sit with mere titles, he resigned as a Member of the Privileges Committee.
Due to his keen interest in protection of environment, Reginald in 2006 established the Curtorim Co-operative Service Society with the primary aim to make his home village of Curtorim the ‘granary of Salcete’ as it was recognized in the days of yore. Through this society, he is now providing tractors free of cost to farmers wanting to cultivate their land in Curtorim and has recently purchased a combined harvester, which is the first in Goa. For the last two harvesting seasons, the Society hired the harvester from Devangere, Karnataka and it proved to be a big boon to farmers.
Being down to earth, Reginaldo Lourenco was the only MLA to be a member of the Village level committee constituted to prepare the Draft Regional Plan 2021 at micro level as he truly believes in participatory governance rather than sitting on protocol.
Due to his commitment to develop the Scheduled Tribes, of which many reside in his constituency, he has been organizing very successful Scheduled Tribes conventions in his constituency for the last two years, where the various government schemes available to them are explained in detail to this backward section of society.
As an MLA, Reginald Lourenco has ensured that the required development works in the constituency are undertaken. But what is significant is that he is one of those rare MLAs who takes his responsibility of being a legislator very seriously and that is the reason why he moved a Private Member’s Bill to regularize Goa’s favourite sport dhirio, which had earned notoriety following its ban by the High Court of Bombay at Panaji. While for the last nearly 10 years dhirios were conducted clandestinely, following Reginald’s move, they may be organized legally and with honour now.
Reginald is married to Francesca Pinto Carvalho who understands his wants and needs very well and that is why when he is busy with his social work, she tends to their two cherubs Amanda and Aliya.
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