Marna, Goa

Marna
village
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Coordinates: 15°37′21.792″N 73°48′37.176″E
Country	India
State	Goa
District	North Goa
Government
• Body	Panchayat (shared with Siolim)
Languages
• Official	Konkani
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	403517
Telephone code	0832
Vehicle registration	GA
Nearest city	Mapusa
Vidhan Sabha constituency	Siolim
Website	www.vpsiolimmarna.com

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

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 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

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. 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.