Marna is a village in Bardez taluk or sub-district in North Goa District of Goa State, India.

Marna
village
Marna is located in Goa
Marna
Marna
Location in Goa, India
Marna is located in India
Marna
Marna
Marna (India)
Coordinates: 15°37′21.792″N 73°48′37.176″E / 15.62272000°N 73.81032667°E / 15.62272000; 73.81032667
Country India
StateGoa
DistrictNorth Goa
Government
 • BodyPanchayat (shared with Siolim)
Languages
 • OfficialKonkani
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN
403517
Telephone code0832
Vehicle registrationGA
Nearest cityMapusa
Vidhan Sabha constituencySiolim
Websitewww.vpsiolimmarna.com

Location and panchayat

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It is located in Siolim, and Siolim-Marna is one of the three village panchayats in the Siolim area.[1]

Area, population

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Marna has an area of 328.94 hectares, and a total of 298 households. It has 1234 residents, of these 569 are men and 665 are women. In the zero-to-six age group, it has a population of 100 children, 47 boys and 53 girls.[2]

Local services

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The Goa-based non-profit organisation, the Indian Students Educational Aid Foundation (ISEAF) has a home nursing bureau, that is located at the Holy Cross Indo-German Techno Centre, in Marna. It launched a mobile nursing service in March 2018, to serve home-bound patients. It offered services such as the dressing of wounds, bladder wash, IV medication, home dialysis, nebulization, enema and the like.[3]

Notes

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  1. ^ "SIOLIM MARNA PANCHAYAT LAUNCED ITS WEBSITE AT THE HANDS OF MLA VINOD". oHeraldo. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
  2. ^ Census of India, 2011 Goa: Series 31, Part XIIB: District Census Handbook, North Goa. Village and Townwise Primary Census Abstracts. Directorate of Census Operations, Goa. 2014. p. 102.
  3. ^ Nida Sayed (28 March 2018). "home-bound patients: Goa: Mobile nursing service reaches out to home-bound patients | Goa News - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 18 October 2020.