Goa Colonised by Indian Army? Monday, 20 December 2010 16:43 0 Comments The State of Goa is a small land mass. Admeasuring 3,702 square kilometers, it is even smaller than some of the districts of bigger states like Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, etc. Goa was the last part of this sub-continent to become a part of the Indian union. And yet, if one considers the data, the presence of the Union Government through its various agencies and undertakings is the highest of all the states in Goa as far as the land holdings of these central agencies is concerned. Going by the official figures available and leaving aside the land holdings of some Central Government agencies like the Post and Telegraph Department, the All India Radio, Doordarshan, to name a few, as much as 67,62,717 square metres of land in Goa is in the possession of Central government agencies. In fact, as much as 8.2 per cent of Goa’s smallest Taluka Mormugao, is in the possession of Central Government agencies. The Indian A