Function, Duties and Objectives

The Goa Nursing Council was developed after sustained efforts by nursing professionals in the year 2012 and who worked as a committee. The Goa Nursing Council Act, 2012 (Goa Act 23 of 2012), which has been passed by the Legislative Assembly of Goa on 8-8-2012 and assented to by the Governor of Goa on 26-9-2012, and published in Government of Goa official gazette, extraordinary no.2 on 3rd October 2012, series I No.26.

The bill was passed and the Government of Goa proposed to make in exercise of the powers conferred by section 42 of the Goa Nursing Council Act, 2012, vide Notification No. PS(H)/2/NC/2012(Part) dated 27-03-2014 of the Department of Public Health, in the Official Gazette, Series I No. 1, was made available to public on 03-04-2014 as the Goa Nursing Council Rules.