Update List Of Governors Of India
Looking for governors of India list? Find below the updated 28 state governors’ list.
A state governor is the constitutional head and is appointed by the president of India. However, the governor can only act upon the advice of a democratically elected state government, headed by a chief minister.
Below listed are the updated list of 28 state governs in the country. The governors of India list also include the first governor of each state.
Governors Of India – New appointments On 28 July, 2024
President, Droupadi Murmu on 28 July 2024 appointed 6 new Indian Governers and reshuffled 3 existing ones, appointing 9 new heads of states. The states that got new Governers are:
- Rajasthan: Haribhau Kisanrao Bagde
- Telangana: Jishnu Dev Varma
- Sikkim: Om Prakash Mathur
- Jharkhand: Santosh Kumar Gangwar
- Chhattisgarh: Ramen Deka
- Meghalaya: CH Vijayashankar
- Maharashtra: CP Radhakrishnan
- Punjab and Chandigarh: Gulab Chand Kataria
- Sikkim and Assam: Lakshman Prasad Acharya
Current Governors Of India – Updated List
Find the full list of governs of states in India. Governors of India list also include the name of the 1st governor of the state.
| SL No | State | Governor | First State Governor (Independent India) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andhra Pradesh | Biswa Bhusan Harichandan | Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi |
| 2 | Arunachal Pradesh | Brig. (Dr.) B. D. Mishra (Retd.) | Bhishma Narain Singh |
| 3 | Assam | Lakshman Prasad Acharya | Sir Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari |
| 4 | Bihar | Phagu Chauhan | Jairamdas Daulatram |
| 5 | Chhattisgarh | Ramen Deka | D.N. Sahay |
| 6 | Goa | PS Sreedharan Pillai | Major General K.P. Candeth |
| 7 | Gujarat | Acharya Dev Vrat | Mehdi Nawaz Jung |
| 8 | Haryana | Bandaru Dattatreya | Shri Dharma Vira |
| 9 | Himachal Pradesh | Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar | S. Chakravarti |
| 10 | Jharkhand | Santosh Kumar Gangwar | Prabhat Kumar |
| 11 | Karnataka | Thaawarchand Gehlot | Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar |
| 12 | Kerala | Arif Mohammed Khan | Burgula Ramakrishna Rao |
| 13 | Madhya Pradesh | Mangubhai Chhaganbhai Patel | Dr. Pattahbhi Sitaramayya |
| 14 | Maharashtra | C P Radhakrishnan | Raja Sir Maharaj Singh |
| 15 | Manipur | Lakshman Prasad Acharya (additional charge) | B. K. Nehru |
| 16 | Meghalaya | C H Vijayashankar | Braj Kumar Nehru |
| 17 | Mizoram | Hari Babu Kambhapati | S.P. Mukherjee |
| 18 | Nagaland | R. N. Ravi | Vishnu Sahay |
| 19 | Odisha | Prof. Ganeshi Lal | Dr. Kailash Nath Katju |
| 20 | Punjab | Gulab Chand Kataria | Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi |
| 21 | Rajasthan | Haribhau Kisanrao Bagde | Raj Pramukh Sawai Sh. Mansingh |
| 22 | Sikkim | Om Prakash Mathur | B.B. Lal |
| 23 | Tamil Nadu | Banwarilal Purohit | Maharaja Shri Sir Krishna Kumarsingji Bhavsingji |
| 24 | Telangana | Jishnu Dev Varma | E.S.L. Narasimhan |
| 25 | Tripura | Satyadev Narayan | B.K. Nehru |
| 26 | Uttar Pradesh | Anandiben Patel | Sarojini Naidu |
| 27 | Uttarakhand | Baby Rani Maurya | Surjit Singh Barnala |
| 28 | West Bengal | CV Ananda Bose | Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari |
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Lieutenant Governors Of India
Find below the updated list of Lieutenant Governors of India.
| Union Territory | Lt. Governor & Administrator |
|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Island (UT) | Admiral D K Joshi (Retd.) (Lieutenant Governor) |
| Chandigarh (UT) | Shri Gulab Chand Kataria (Administrator) |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (UT) | Shri Praful Patel (Administrator) |
| Delhi (NCT) | Shri Vinai Kumar Saxena (Lieutenant Governor) |
| Jammu and Kashmir (UT) | Shri Manoj Sinha (Lieutenant Governor) |
| Lakshadweep (UT) | Shri Praful Patel (Administrator) |
| Puducherry (UT) | Shri K. Kailashnathan (Lieutenant Governor) |
| Ladakh (UT) | Brig. (Dr.) Shri B.D. Mishra (Retd.) (Lieutenant Governor) |
Source: Governors Of India
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