Solution:

• On 30 May 1987 Goa was conferred statehood and Daman and Diu was made a separate union territory.

• Goa is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the region known as the Konkan, and geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats.

• It is India’s smallest state by area and its fourth-smallest by population.

• Goa has the highest GDP per capita among all Indian states,two and a half times as high as the GDP per capita of the country as a whole.