Establishment of Konkani Institute
In the Centenary Year of the College, 1980, a unique gift was given to the Konkanis of Mangalore – The Konkani Institute of St.Aloysius College; thus giving a new lease of life to Konkani. Fr.Herbert Noronha SJ was the first Director of the Institute. As the first step towards the propagation, development and preservation of the language an exclusive Konkani library was established (which has now grown to eight thousand plus volumes) and “Amar Konkani” a bi-annual research journal was started under the expert editorship of (late) VJP Saldanha, a Konkani scholar, researcher and novelist par excellence. The journal was published in two scripts of Konkani, Kannada and Devnagari. This journal will shortly publish it Golden Jubilee issue.
 
 
 The first issue of Amar Konkani
 
 
 Late Mr. JVP Saldanha- First editor