| # | Name | Took Office | Left Office |
| 1 | B. K. Nehru | 21 January 1972 | 20 September 1973 |
| 2 | L.P. Singh | 21 September 1973 | 11 August 1981 |
| 3 | S.M.H. Burney | 12 August 1981 | 11 June 1984 |
| 4 | K. V. Krishna Rao | 2 June 1984 | 7 July 1989 |
| 5 | Chintamani Panigrahi | 10 July 1989 | 19 March 1993 |
| 6 | K. V. Raghunatha Reddy | 20 March 1993 | 30 August 1993 |
| 7 | V.K. Nayar | 31 August 1993 | 22 December 1994 |
| 8 | O. N. Shrivastava | 23 December 1994 | 11 February 1999 |
| 9 | Ved Marwah | 2 December 1999 | 12 June 2003 |
| 10 | Arvind Dave | 13 June 2003 | 5 August 2004 |
| 11 | Shivinder Singh Sidhu | 6 August 2004 | 23 July 2008 |
| 12 | Gurbachan Jagat | 23 July 2008 | present |
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