Goa state details

✅Goa state details:-

🔺Formation :- 30 May 1987

🔺Known As :- The Pearl of East

🔺Capital :- Panaji

🔺Present CM :- Pramod Sawant

🔺Present Governor :- P. S. Sreedharan Pillai

🔺Official Language :- Konkani

🔺Area :- 3,702 km2

🔺Area Rank :- 28th 

🔺Total Population :- 1,458,545

 

🔺Rank in Population :- 26th 

🔺District :- 2

🔺Lok Sabha :- 2

🔺Rajya Sabha :- 1

🔺Legislature :- Unicameral+40

🔺Border States :- Maharashtra & Karnataka

🔺Famous Temple :- Mahadev, Mahalakshmi

🔺State animal :- Gaur

🔺State Bird :- Flame Throated Bulbul

🔺State Flower :- Jasmine

🔺State Tree :- Matti Terminalia Crenulata

🔺GI Tags :- khola Chili

                      Harmal Chillies

                      Moira Bananas

                      Khaje

🔺High Court :- Bombay High Court.

🔺Chief Justice :- Dipankar Datta

🔺National Park :- Mollem National Park.

◼️Rivers :- Mandovi

◼️Fair & Festival :- Shigmo Festival

◼️Dance Form :- Fugdi, Dhalo

◼️Wildlife Sanctuaries :-

🔺Bhagwan Mahavir WLS

🔺Bondla WLS

🔺Cotigaon WLS

🔺Netravali WLS

🔺Madei WLS 

◼️Waterfalls :-

🔺Tambdi Surla Waterfalls

🔺Charavane Waterfall

🔺Surla Waterfalls

◼️Historical Places :-

🔺Basilica of Bom Jesus.

🔺Modern Art Gallery

🔺Se Cathedral

🔺Viceroy’s Arch

◼️Stadium :- Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Indoor Stadium at Panaji, Goa.

◼️Airports:- Goa International Airport.

         ◼️RECENTLY IN NEWS◼️

🔺Guinness World Records recognise Ronaldo for most goals scored.

🔺International Science Festival (IISF) In Panaji, Goa.

🔺Goa’s 14-year-old Leon Mendonca becomes India’s 67th Grandmaster.

🔺ADB Raises 2019–2030 Climate Financing Goal to $100 Billion.

🔺Goa Electric Mobility Promotion Policy 2021, to encourage the adoption of electric vehicles.

🔺NABARD sanctioned ₹ 2891.15 lakh under RIDF scheme to Government of Goa.

🔺Goa becomes first state to go rabies free.

🔺Goa Carnival is celebrated in February month.

🔺Goa Government Launches Solar-Based Electrification Drive For Rural Households.

🔺Goa celebrated its statehood day on 30th May (37th anniversary 2021).

🔺Goa state government has collaborated with IBM to provide free skills training to the youth.

🔺World Bank sanctions Rs 3 crore to set up India’s first Sand Dune Park in Goa.

♣️It is India's smallest state by area and its fourth-smallest by population.