{ "id": 16408, "slug": "goa-information-technology-development-act-2007", "title": "The Goa Information Technology Development Act, 2007", "short_title": "The Goa Information Technology Development Act, 2007", "act_number": "(Goa Act 10 of 2007)", "act_year": 2007, "act_type": "STATE", "location": "Goa", "law_status": "unknown", "enactment_date": null, "description": "The Goa Information Technology Development Act, 2007", "preamble": "", "section_label": "Section", "sections": [ { "number": "1", "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 0 }, { "number": "2", "title": "2. Definitions.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) \"engineering operation\" includes road, supply of water or electricity, street lighting, drainage, sewage, conservancy and such other connivance as the Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify to be an amenity for the purposes of this Act;\n(b) \"building\" means any structure or erection, or a part of a structure or erection, which is intended to be used for residential, industrial, commercial or other purposes, whether in actual use or not;\n(c) \"Collector\" means the Collector of the district, and includes any Officer specially appointed by the Government to perform the functions of a Collector under this Act;\n(d) \"Corporation\" means the Goa Information Technology Development Corporation established under section 3;\n(e) \"development\" with its grammatical variations, means the carrying out of building, engineering, quarrying or other operations, in, on, over or under land, or the making of any material change on any building or land, and includes re-development, but does not include mining operations and \"to develop\" shall be construed accordingly;\n(f) \"engineering operation\" include the formation or laying out of means of access to a road or the laying out of means of water supply;\n(g) \"Integrated IT Township/IT Parks\" means any site selected by the Government where the Corporation shall develop plots, build factories other buildings and make them available for [Integrated Information Technology Township/Information Technology Parks, Information Technology (IT) Companies, Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES), Startup, Electronic Manufacturing Cluster (EMC), Industry 4.0] .;\n[(ga) \"Information Technology (IT) Companies\" includes Information Technology Software, Information Technology Services;\n(gb) \"Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES)\" include Call Centres, Medical Transcriptions, Back Office Operations/Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)/Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO), Website services and Development, AVGC (Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming and Comics), Information Technology System Audit Services, Legal Database Processing, Bioinformatics, Information Technology enabled banking, non-banking services including insurance, pension asset management and market related services, Information Technology solution provider/Implementers (including server data banks, application service provider internet//web based e-commerce service providers and system integrators)/Visual Effects/Digital Entertainment and Information Technology Engineering Services Companies;\n(gc) \"Startup\" means an entity, in-corporated or registered in Goa;\n(i) not prior to seven years, and in case of Biotechnology Startups, not prior to ten years;\n(ii) with annual turnover not exceeding Indian Rupee (INR) 25 crores in the preceding financial year; and\n(iii) working towards innovation, development or improvement of products or processes or services, with a high potential of employment generation or wealth creation; and\n(iv) not formed by splitting up, or reconstruction, of a business already in existence;\n(gd) \"Electronic Manufacturing Cluster (EMC)\" means either a Greenfield EMC or a Brownfield EMC notified under the guidelines for notifying Brownfield Clusters under M-SIPS Scheme dated 14.1.2013[F.No. 36(3)/2012-IPHW] or a Greenfield EMC as notified under Clause 6.8(iii) of the guidelines No. 8(50)/2011-IPHW dated 15th April, 2013;\n(ge) \"Industry 4.0\" means current trend of automation and date exchange in manufacturing technology including cyber-physical systems, the Internet of things and cloud computing;]\n(h) \"means of access\" includes a road, wharf or any means of access, whether private or public, for vehicles or boats or for foot passengers;\n(i) \"premises\" means any land or building or part of a building and includes-\n(i) the garden, grounds and out-houses, if any, appertaining to such building or part of a building; and\n(ii) any fittings affixed to such building or part of a building for the more beneficial enjoyment thereof;\n(j) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(k) the expression \"land\" and the expression \"person interested\" shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in section 3 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (1 of 1894);\n(l) \"Government\" means the Government of Goa.\nChapter II\nEstablishment and Constitution of the Corporation", "footnote": "", "is_definition": true, "sort_order": 1 }, { "number": "3", "title": "3. Establishment and incorporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 2 }, { "number": "4", "title": "4. Constitution.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) Minister-in-charge of Information Technology Department.\n(b) Four Directors to be nominated by the Government.\n(c) Secretary to the Government of Goa in the Finance Department.\n(d) Secretary to the Government of Goa in the Information Technology Department.\n(e) Director of Information Technology.\n(f) Managing Director, Goa Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC).\n(g) Managing Director, Goa Information Technology Development Corporation (GITDC).", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 3 }, { "number": "5", "title": "5. Disqualification for Director.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) is an employee of the Corporation, not being the Managing Director; or\n(b) is of unsound mind, and stands so declared, by a competent Court; or\n(c) is an undischarged insolvent; or\n(d) is convicted of an offence involving moral turpitude within a period of five years immediately before his being nominated as Director.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 4 }, { "number": "6", "title": "6. Term of office and conditions of service of Director.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 5 }, { "number": "7", "title": "7. Meetings of Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 6 }, { "number": "8", "title": "8. Cessation of Director.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) becomes, subject to any of the disqualifications mentioned in section 5; or\n(b) tenders his resignation in writing to, and such resignation is accepted by the Government; or\n(c) is absent without the Corporation's permission from three consecutive meetings of the Corporation, or from all meetings of the Corporation for three consecutive months; or\n(d) is convicted of an offence involving moral turpitude, he shall cease to be a Director of the Corporation.\n(a) has refused to act; or\n(b) has become incapable of acting; or\n(c) has so abused his position as Director as to render his continuance on the Corporation detrimental to the interest thereof or of the general public; or\n(d) is otherwise unfit to continue as a Director:", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 7 }, { "number": "9", "title": "9. Vacancies how to be filled.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 8 }, { "number": "10", "title": "10. Temporary absence of Directors.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 9 }, { "number": "11", "title": "11. Proceeding presumed to be good and valid.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 10 }, { "number": "12", "title": "12. Officers and servants of the Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) as regards the Managing Director and the Chief Accounts Officer, be such as may be prescribed; and\n(b) as regards the other officers and servants, be such as may be determined by regulations made under this Act.\nChapter III\nFunctions and Powers of the Corporation", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 11 }, { "number": "13", "title": "13. Functions.", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) generally to promote and assist in the rapid and orderly establishment, growth and development of Integrated IT Townships/IT Parks in the State of Goa.\n(ii) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of clause (i), to-\n(a) establish and manage Integrated IT Township/IT Parks at places selected by the Government;\n(b) develop areas selected by the Government for the above purpose and make them available for undertakings to establish themselves;\n(c) undertake schemes or works, either jointly or on agency basis, with other corporate bodies or institutions, or with Government in furtherance of the purposes for which the Corporation is established and all matters connected therewith.\n(iii) generally to support and assist the Government in development of e-Governance applications required to be developed to serve citizens and business.\n(iv) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of clause (iii), to-\n(a) undertake software development projects selected by the Government.\n(b) undertake the activities of providing required hardware to various Government departments as directed by the Government.\n(c) undertake the activities of local area network and electrical cabling work required to connect IT hardware and UPS etc. in various departments as directed by the Government.\n(d) undertake above activities either directly or jointly or agency basis with other corporate bodies or institutions.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 12 }, { "number": "14", "title": "14. General powers of the Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) to acquire and hold such property, both movable and immovable, as the Corporation may deem necessary for the performance of any of its activities, and to lease, sell, exchange or otherwise transfer any property held by it on such conditions as may be deemed proper by the Corporation;\n(b) to provide or cause to be provided amenities and common facilities in Integrated IT Township/IT Parks [and for Information Technology (IT) Companies, Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES), Startup, Electronic Manufacturing Cluster (EMC), Industry 4.0] and construct and maintain or cause to be constructed and maintained works and buildings therefor;\n(c) to make available buildings on hire or on sale to industrialists or persons intending to start Information Technology industries;\n(d) to construct buildings for the housing of the employees;\n(e) (i) to allot buildings or parts of buildings, including residential tenements to suitable persons in the Integrated IT Township/IT Parks [and for Information Technology (IT) Companies, Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES), Startup, Electronic Manufacturing Cluster (EMC), Industry 4.0] established or developed by the Corporation;\n(ii) to modify or rescind such allotments, including the right and power to evict the allottees concerned on breach of any of the terms or conditions of their allotment;\n(f) to constitute advisory committee to advise the Corporation;\n(g) to engage suitable consultants or persons having special knowledge or skill to assist the Corporation in the performance of its functions;\n(h) subject to the previous permission of the Government, to delegate any of its powers generally or specially to any of its committees or officers, and to permit them to re-delegate specific powers to their subordinates;\n(i) to enter into and perform all such contracts as it may consider necessary or expedient for carrying out any of its functions; and\n(j) to do such other things and perform such acts as it may think necessary or expedient for the proper conduct of its functions and the carrying into effect the purposes of this Act.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 13 }, { "number": "15", "title": "15. Authentication of orders and documents of Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 14 }, { "number": "16", "title": "16. Directions by the Government.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter IV\nFinance, Accounts and Audit", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 15 }, { "number": "17", "title": "17. Application of Corporation's assets.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 16 }, { "number": "18", "title": "18. Corporation's fund.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) all monies received by the Corporation by way of grants, subventions, loans, advances or otherwise;\n(b) all fees, costs and charges received by the Corporation under this Act;\n(c) all monies received by the Corporation from the disposal of lands, buildings and other properties, movable and immovable, and other transactions;\n(d) all monies received by the Corporation by way of rents and profits, or in any other manner or from any other source including the proceeds of any loan authorised by section 20.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 17 }, { "number": "19", "title": "19. Grants, subventions, loans and advances and capital contribution to the Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 18 }, { "number": "20", "title": "20. Power of the Corporation to borrow.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 19 }, { "number": "21", "title": "21. Deposits.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 20 }, { "number": "22", "title": "22. Reserve and other funds.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 21 }, { "number": "23", "title": "23. Expenditure from funds.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 22 }, { "number": "24", "title": "24. Budget and programme of work.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 23 }, { "number": "25", "title": "25. Accounts and audit.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 24 }, { "number": "26", "title": "26. Concurrent and special audit of accounts.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter V", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 25 }, { "number": "27", "title": "27. Acquisition of land for the Corporation to be a public purpose.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 26 }, { "number": "28", "title": "28. Disposal of land by the Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) any land acquired by the Government and transferred to it, without undertaking or carrying out any development thereon; or\n(b) any such land after undertaking or carrying out such development as it thinks fit, to such persons in such manner and subject to such terms and conditions, as it considers expedient for securing the purposes of this Act.\n(a) where the Corporation proposes to dispose of by sale any such land without any development having been undertaken or carried out thereon, the Corporation shall offer the land in the first instance to the person from whom it was acquired, if they desire to purchase it, subject to such requirements as to its development and use as the Corporation may think fit to impose;\n(b) persons who are residing or carrying on business or other activities on any such land shall, if they desire to obtain accommodation on land belonging to the Corporation and are willing to comply with any requirements of the Corporation as to its development and use, have an opportunity to obtain thereon accommodation suitable to their reasonable requirements on terms settled with due regard to the price at which any such land has been acquired from them.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 27 }, { "number": "29", "title": "29. Government lands.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter VI\nSupplementary and Miscellaneous Provisions", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 28 }, { "number": "30", "title": "30. Powers of Corporation in case of certain defaults by owner of land Integrated IT Townships/IT Parks.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 29 }, { "number": "31", "title": "31. Order of demolition of building.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 30 }, { "number": "32", "title": "32. Power to stop building operations.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 31 }, { "number": "33", "title": "33. Penalty for construction or use of land and buildings contrary to terms of holding.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 32 }, { "number": "34", "title": "34. Power to lay pipe lines, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 33 }, { "number": "35", "title": "35. Powers of entry.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) making any inspection, survey, measurement, valuation or enquiry or taking levels of such land or building;\n(b) examining works under construction and ascertaining the course of sewers and drains;\n(c) digging or boring into the sub-soil;\n(d) setting out boundaries and intended lines of work;\n(e) marking such levels, boundaries and lines by placing marks and cutting trenches;\n(f) doing any other thing necessary for the efficient administration of this Act:\n(i) no such entry shall be made except between the hours of sunrise and sunset and without giving reasonable notice to the occupier, or if there be no occupier, to the owner of the land or building;\n(ii) sufficient opportunity shall in every instance be given to enable women (if any) to withdraw from such land or building;\n(iii) due regard shall always be had, so far as may be compatible with the exigencies of the purpose for which the entry is made, to the social and religious usages of the occupants of the land or building entered.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 34 }, { "number": "36", "title": "36. Officers of the Corporation may be vested with other powers.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 35 }, { "number": "37", "title": "37. Overriding powers of Government to issue directions to local authorities.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 36 }, { "number": "38", "title": "38. Declaration as Integrated IT Township/IT Parks.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) declare an area which is-\n(1) earmarked as Integrated IT Township/IT Parks; and\n(2) having adequate facilities in respect of power, roads, water supply, to be notified area;\n(b) appoint the Corporation or any Officer or Committee thereof for the purpose of the assessment and recovery of any taxes when imposed as per the provisions made thereof;\n(c) declare that the provisions of any law relating to local authorities providing for control or erection of buildings, levy and collection of taxes, fees and other dues to the local authority which is in force in that area shall cease to apply and thereupon such provisions shall cease to apply thereof:\n(d) make other provision as is necessary for the purpose of the enforcement of the provisions so provided to that area.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 37 }, { "number": "39", "title": "39. Recovery of sums due to the Corporation as arrears of land revenue.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 38 }, { "number": "40", "title": "40. Service of notices, etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) where the person to be served is a company, the service is effected in accordance with the provisions of section 51 of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956);\n(b) where the person to be served is a firm, if the document is addressed to the firm at its principal place of business identifying it by the name or style under which its business is carried on, and is either-\n(i) sent under a certificate of posting or by registered post; or\n(ii) left at the said place of business;\n(c) where the person to be served is a statutory public body or a corporation or a society or other body, if the document is addressed to the secretary, treasurer or other chief officer of that body, corporation or society, at its principal office and is either-\n(i) sent under a certificate of posting or by registered post; or\n(ii) left at that office;\n(d) in any other case, if the document is addressed to the person to be served and-\n(i) is given or tendered to him; or\n(ii) if such person cannot be found, is affixed on some conspicuous part of his last known place of residence or business or is given or tendered to some adult member of his family or is affixed on some conspicuous part of the land or building to which it relates; or\n(iii) is sent under a certificate of posting or by registered post to that person.\n(a) if the document so addressed is sent or delivered in accordance with clause (d) of sub-section (1); or\n(b) if the document so addressed or a copy thereof so addressed, is given or tendered to some person on the land or building or, where there is no person on the land or building to whom it can be delivered, is affixed on some conspicuous part of the land or building.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 39 }, { "number": "41", "title": "41. Public notices how to be made known.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 40 }, { "number": "42", "title": "42. Notices, etc., to fix reasonable time.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 41 }, { "number": "43", "title": "43. Furnishing of returns etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 42 }, { "number": "44", "title": "44. Withdrawal of area or estate or part thereof.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 43 }, { "number": "45", "title": "45. Default in performance of duty.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 44 }, { "number": "46", "title": "46. Dissolution of Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) all properties, funds and dues which are vested in, or realisable by the Corporation, shall vest in, or be realisable by the Government;\n(b) all liabilities which are enforceable against the Corporation shall be enforceable against the Government.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 45 }, { "number": "47", "title": "47. Authority for prosecution.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 46 }, { "number": "48", "title": "48. Composition of offences by Corporation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 47 }, { "number": "49", "title": "49. Offence by companies.", "chapter": null, "content": "Explanation.\n(a) \"company\" means any body corporate, and includes a firm or other association of individuals; and\n(b) \"director\", in relation to a firm, means a partner in the firm.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 48 }, { "number": "50", "title": "50. Penalty for obstruction.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 49 }, { "number": "51", "title": "51. Power to make rules.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) under section 6, the salary and allowances and honorarium of members of the Corporation;\n(b) under section 12, the conditions of appointment and service and the scales of pay of the Managing Director and Chief Accounts Officer of the Corporation;\n(c) under section 18, the sums of money to be kept by the Corporation in current and deposit accounts;\n(d) under section 20, the condition subject to which the Corporation may borrow;\n(e) under section 24, the date by which the annual financial statement and programme of work shall be submitted by the Corporation to the Government and the form and manner of preparing such statements;\n(f) under section 25, the manner of maintaining accounts;\n(g) under section 43, the form of, and the details to be given in the annual report;\n(h) the fees which may be charged by the Corporation;\n(i) any other matter which has to be, or may be, prescribed by the rules.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 50 }, { "number": "52", "title": "52. Power to make regulations.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) under section 7, the time and place of meetings of the Corporation and the procedure to be followed in regard to the transaction of business at such meetings;\n(b) under section 12, the conditions of appointment and service and the scales of pay of officers and servants of the Corporation, other than the Managing Director and the Chief Accounts Officer;\n(c) under section 18, the officer of the Corporation who may operate its accounts;\n(d) under section 29, the manner in which Government lands shall be dealt with by the Corporation after development;\n(e) under section 31, the Committee of the Corporation to hear appeals under that section and the procedure to be followed by it;\n(f) under section 33, the additional terms and conditions subject to which lands and buildings in Integrated IT Township/IT Parks may be held or used;\n(g) any other matter which has to be, or may be, provided by regulations.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 51 }, { "number": "53", "title": "53. Protection of action taken in good faith.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 52 }, { "number": "54", "title": "54. Notice to suit and limitation of suits against Corporation, Committees, Officers and servant for acts done in pursuance of execution of this Act.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) unless it is commenced within six months after the accrual of the cause of action; and\n(b) until the expiration of two months after the notice in writing has been, in the case of the Corporation or its Committee, delivered or left at the Corporation's office and in the case of an Officer or servant of Corporation, delivered to him or left at his office or place of abode; and all such notices shall state with reasonable particulars the cause of action and the name and place of abode of the intending plaintiff and of his advocate, pleader, or agent, if any, for the purpose of the suit.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 53 }, { "number": "55", "title": "55. Members, officers and staff of Corporation to be public servants.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 54 }, { "number": "56", "title": "56. Power to remove doubts and difficulties.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 55 }, { "number": "57", "title": "57. Act to have overriding effect.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 56 }, { "number": "58", "title": "58. Repeal and saving.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 57 } ], "metadata": { "Act ID": "goa147", "Act Number": "(Goa Act 10 of 2007)", "Enactment Date": "", "Act Year": "2007", "Short Title": "The Goa Information Technology Development Act, 2007", "Type": "STATE", "Location": "Goa" }, "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:52:43" }