[3] On the village hilltop is the Pilerne Industrial Estate[4] which was set up in 1994 with an area of 4,89,225 sq m.[5] Subodh Kerkar's Museum of Goa is located here.

Augusto Pinto, reviewer and critic, comments: The house where he spent his childhood, in the north Goan town of Pilerne, is today in ruins.

Only a handful of the oldest residents remember him, and hardly anyone knows that Furtado, who passed away in 1947 at the age of 75, was one of the finest Indian English poets of his time.

[8] Marianne Furtado de Nazareth, the journalist-author, has written a book called Above The Rice Fields of Pilerne: A Tapestry of Life (2005).

[11][12] Earlier, in 2013, the Savlem (also spelt as Saulem) lake was reported to be facing the perils of "pollution and apathy" with a huge housing colony almost built on the spot had it not been for some alert villagers.

In July 2020, it was reported that the "expansion of the Saligao garbage treatment plant has come under a major cloud, not with just the local villagers strongly objecting to this, but politics also being played out on the issue."