List of current Indian governors Facts for Kids

Several governors, lieutenant governors and administrators pose with the Vice President of India on the eve of ‘2021 Governors Conference’, at Vice President's House, in New Delhi in November 2021.

In the Republic of India, according to the Article 154 of Constitution of India, a governor is the constitutional head of each of the twenty-eight states. The governor is appointed by the president of India for a term of five years, and holds office at the president's pleasure.

The governor is de jure head of the state government; all its executive actions are taken in the governor's name. However, the governor must act on the advice of the popularly elected council of ministers, headed by the chief minister, which thus holds de facto executive authority at the state-level. The Constitution of India also empowers the governor to appoint or dismiss a ministry, recommend president's rule, or reserve bills for the president's assent.

Current governors of all Indian states

The following list consists of the list of the current governors of all the Indian states.

State (past governors)	Name	Took office (tenure length)	Profile link
Andhra Pradesh (list)	S. Abdul Nazeer	20 February 2023 (1 year, 83 days)	[1]
Arunachal Pradesh (list)	Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik	16 February 2023 (1 year, 87 days)	[2]
Assam (list)	Gulab Chand Kataria	22 February 2023 (1 year, 81 days)	[3]
Bihar (list)	Rajendra Arlekar	18 February 2023 (1 year, 85 days)	[4]
Chhattisgarh (list)	Biswabhusan Harichandan	22 February 2023 (1 year, 81 days)	[5]
Goa (list)	P. S. Sreedharan Pillai	15 July 2021 (2 years, 303 days)	[6]
Gujarat (list)	Acharya Devvrat	22 July 2019 (4 years, 296 days)	[7]
Haryana (list)	Bandaru Dattatreya	15 July 2021 (2 years, 303 days)	[8]
Himachal Pradesh (list)	Shiv Pratap Shukla	18 February 2023 (1 year, 85 days)	[9]
Jharkhand (list)	C. P. Radhakrishnan	18 February 2023 (1 year, 85 days)	[10]
Karnataka (list)	Thawar Chand Gehlot	11 July 2021 (2 years, 307 days)	[11]
Kerala (list)	Arif Mohammad Khan	6 September 2019 (4 years, 250 days)	[12]
Madhya Pradesh (list)	Mangubhai C. Patel	8 July 2021 (2 years, 310 days)	[13]
Maharashtra (list)	Ramesh Bais	18 February 2023 (1 year, 85 days)	[14]
Manipur (list)	Anusuiya Uikey	22 February 2023 (1 year, 81 days)	[15]
Meghalaya (list)	Phagu Chauhan	18 February 2023 (1 year, 85 days)	[16]
Mizoram (list)	Kambhampati Hari Babu	6 November 2021 (2 years, 189 days)	[17]
Nagaland (list)	La. Ganesan	20 February 2023 (1 year, 83 days)	[18]
Odisha (list)	Raghubar Das	31 October 2023 (195 days)	[19]
Punjab (list)	Banwarilal Purohit	31 August 2021 (2 years, 256 days)	[20]
Rajasthan (list)	Kalraj Mishra	9 September 2019 (4 years, 247 days)	[21]
Sikkim (list)	Lakshman Acharya	16 February 2023 (1 year, 87 days)	[22]
Tamil Nadu (list)	R. N. Ravi	18 September 2021 (2 years, 238 days)	[23]
Telangana (list)	C. P. Radhakrishnan (additional charge)	19 March 2024 (55 days)
Tripura (list)	Indrasena Reddy	26 October 2023 (200 days)	[24]
Uttar Pradesh (list)	Anandiben Patel	29 July 2019 (4 years, 289 days)	[25]
Uttarakhand (list)	Gurmit Singh	15 September 2021 (2 years, 241 days)	[26]
West Bengal (list)	C. V. Ananda Bose	23 November 2022 (1 year, 172 days)	[27]