List of Governors of Indian states

List of current Governors, Lieutenant Governors and Administrators of Indian States and Union Territories.

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Governors

Indian State Name Took Office List
Andhra Pradesh E.S.L. Narasimhan 27 December 2009 all
Arunachal Pradesh General Jaswant Singh 24 January 2008 all
Assam Janaki Ballabh Patnaik 27 November 2009 all
Bihar Devanand Konwar 24 July 2009 all
Chhattisgarh Shekhar Dutt, SM 23 January 2010 all
Goa K. Sankaranarayanan 27 August 2011 all
Gujarat Kamla Beniwal 27 November 2009 all
Haryana Jagannath Pahadia 27 July 2009 all
Himachal Pradesh Urmila Singh 25 January 2010 all
Jammu and Kashmir Narinder Nath Vohra 25 June 2008 all
Jharkhand Syed Ahmed 4 September 2011 all
Karnataka Hans Raj Bhardwaj 29 June 2009 all
Kerala M. O. Hasan Farook Maricar 8 September 2011 all
Madhya Pradesh Ram Naresh Yadav 8 September 2011 all
Maharashtra K. Sankaranarayanan 22 January 2010 all
Manipur Gurbachan Jagat 23 July 2008 all
Meghalaya Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary 1 July 2008 all
Mizoram Vakkom Purushothaman 2 September 2011 all
Nagaland Nikhil Kumar 15 October 2009 all
Orissa Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare 21 August 2007 all
Punjab Shivraj Patil 22 January 2010 all
Rajasthan Shivraj Patil (additional charge due to the death of Prabha Rau) 26 April 2010 all
Sikkim Balmiki Prasad Singh 9 July 2008 all
Tamil Nadu Konijeti Rosaiah 31 August 2011 all
Tripura Dnyandeo Yashwantrao Patil 27 November 2009 all
Uttarakhand Margaret Alva 19 July 2009 all
Uttar Pradesh Banwari Lal Joshi 28 July 2009 all
West Bengal M.K. Narayanan 24 January 2010 all

Lieutenant Governors

Lieutenant Governors are in charge of a Union Territory. He/she is given almost the same powers chief ministers have over their states. However the rank is given just to the 3 union territories of Delhi, Pondicherry and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Lieutenant-governors hold the same rank as a governor of a state in the list of precedence.

However, Delhi and Pondicherry have a measure of self-government with an elected legislature and cabinet- hence the role of the Lieutenant-Governor in those territories is more akin to that of a state governor.

The other 4 territories have an administrator appointed, who is an Indian Administrative Service officer.

Union Territory Name of the Governor Took Office List
Andaman and Nicobar Lt. Gen. Bhopinder Singh PVSM,AVSM 29 December 2006 all
Delhi Ta 9 April 2007 all
Pondicherry Iqbal Singh 27 July 2009 all

Administrators

Union Territory Name Took Office List
Chandigarh Shivraj Patil 22 January 2010 all

See also