PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
EXTRAORDINARY
No. 7
Department of General Administration
Notification
No. 37/3/2019-GAD-III/5556 Date : 17-Dec-2025
Read:- Notification No. 37/3/2019-GAD-III/5490 dated 15-12-2025.
In pursuance to sub-section (1) of Section 40A of the Goa Panchayat Raj Act, 1994 (Goa Act No. 14 of 1994), the Government of Goa hereby declares Saturday, the 20th December, 2025 (Agrahayana 29, Saka 1947) as a "Paid Holiday" being the "Polling Day" for General Elections to Zilla Panchayats of North and South Goa Districts, to every person employed in any business, trade, industrial undertaking or any other establishment and entitled to vote at the aforesaid Zilla Panchayat Election, throughout the State of Goa.
The aforesaid holiday shall also be a "paid holiday", in addition to the holidays indicated in the Notification No. 37/3/2024-GAD-III/4247 dated 22-10-2024 published in the Official Gazette, Series II No. 30 dated 24-10-2024 to the following persons who are entitled to vote at the aforesaid Zilla Panchayat General Elections:-
(i) workers of all establishments including commercial and industrial undertakings in the State of Goa;
(ii) daily wage/casual workers employed in any business, trade, industrial undertakings, Government departments, State Government Industrial Departments or any other establishments.
This supersedes the earlier Notification dated 15-12-2025 read in preamble.
By order and in the name of the Governor of Goa.
Shreyas Dsilva, Under Secretary (GA-I).
Porvorim.
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