Update List Of Governors Of India

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July 12, 2021

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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