Marna, Goa

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

Marna
village
Marna
Location in Goa, India
Marna
Marna (India)
Coordinates: 15°37′21.792″N 73°48′37.176″E
Country India
StateGoa
DistrictSouth 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

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

Area, population

Marna has an area of 328.94 hactares, 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

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

  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. Mar 28, Nida Sayed / TNN /; 2018; Ist, 19:18. "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.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)


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