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Governor of Goa
Flag of Goa, India.svg
Emblem of Goa
PS Sreedharan Pillai.jpg
Incumbent
P. S. Sreedharan Pillai

since 7 July 2021
Style His Excellency
Residence Raj Bhavan, Goa, Panaji
Appointer President of India
Term length At the pleasure of the President
Inaugural holder Gopal Singh
Formation 30 May 1987; 37 years ago (1987-05-30)

The governor of Goa is the nominal head of the Indian state of Goa. The governor is appointed by the president for a term of five years. P. S. Sreedharan Pillai became governor on 7 July 2021.

Powers and functions

The governor has:

  • Executive powers related to administration, appointments and removals,
  • Legislative powers related to lawmaking and the state legislature, that is Vidhan Sabha or Vidhan Parishad, and
  • Discretionary powers to be carried out according to the discretion of the governor.

Ex officio powers

  • The governor is the chancellor of Goa University and exercises powers delegated under the Goa University Act, 1984, and the statutes of the university.
  • The governor is the ex officio president of the Indian Red Cross Society, Goa Branch, and has the powers to appoint the chairman, hon. secretary, etc.
  • The governor is the president of the Goa State Environment Protection Council, which is an advisory body, set up by the government of Goa. The council consisting of government authorities and the NGOs engaged in environmental and the related areas meets once in six months and deliberates on various issues on the environment and ecology of the state.
  • The governor is the chairman of the Special Fund for Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of Ex-Servicemen and Widows.

Previous governors of Goa

Portuguese governors general

The first Portuguese governor general was Francisco de Almeida in 1505 and the last Manuel Antonio Vassalo e Silva who left office in 1961. In total there have been 163 governors general.

Lieutenant governors of Goa, Daman and Diu

Goa, along with Daman and Diu was a union territory of India until 30 May 1987. As such it had a lieutenant governor till that time.

# Name Portrait Took office Left office Birth-Death Duration
1 Maj Gen K. P. Candeth (military governor) Kunhiraman Palath Candeth-.jpg 19 December 1961 6 June 1962 1916–2003
2 Tumkur Sivasankar No image available.svg 7 June 1962 1 September 1963 189?–19??
3 M. R. Sachdev No image available.svg 2 September 1963 8 December 1964 1903–1964
4 Hari Sharma No image available.svg 12 December 1964 23 February 1965 1910–1987
5 K. R. Damle No image available.svg 24 February 1965 17 April 1967 1912–2001
6 Nakul Sen No image available.svg 18 April 1967 15 November 1972 1915–1983
7 S. K. Banerji No image available.svg 16 November 1972 15 November 1977 1922–2010
8 P. S. Gill No image available.svg 16 November 1977 30 March 1981 1927-living
9 Jagmohan The Union Minister for Tourism and Culture Shri Jagmohan briefing the media about further plans of the Ministry of Tourism and Culture for Yamuna Pushta Area and activities of ASI in New Delhi on February 13, 2004.jpg 31 March 1981 29 August 1982 1927–2021
10 Air Chief Marshal I H Latif ACM IH Latif.jpg 30 August 1982 23 February 1983 1923–2018
11 K. T. Satarawala No image available.svg 24 February 1983 3 July 1984 1930–2016
12 Air Chief Marshal I H Latif ACM IH Latif.jpg 4 July 1984 23 September 1984 1923–2018
13 Gopal Singh Gopal Singh. 1952.jpg 24 September 1984 29 May 1987 1917–1990

Governors after 1987

Goa became a full-fledged state of India in 1987 and since then has had the following governors:

Key
 • indicates that this was an additional charge or acting
# Name Portrait Took office Left office Duration Home State Appointed by
1. Gopal Singh Gopal Singh. 1952.jpg 30 May 1987 17 July 1989 2 years, 48 days Punjab Zail Singh
2. Khurshed Alam Khan Khurshed Alam Khan (cropped).jpg 18 July 1989 17 March 1991 1 year, 242 days Uttar Pradesh R. Venkataraman
3. Bhanu Prakash Singh Bhanu Prakash Gupta, Governor of Goa (cropped).jpg 18 March 1991 3 April 1994 3 years, 16 days Madhya Pradesh
4. B. Rachaiah No image available.svg 4 April 1994 3 August 1994 121 days Karnataka Shankar Dayal Sharma
5. Gopala Ramanujam No image available.svg 4 August 1994 15 June 1995 315 days Tamil Nadu
6. Romesh Bhandari Romesh Bhandari.jpg 16 June 1995 18 July 1996 1 year, 32 days Punjab
7. P.C. Alexander No image available.svg 19 July 1996 15 January 1998 1 year, 180 days Kerala
8. T. R. Satish Chandran No image available.svg 16 January 1998 18 April 1998 92 days Karnataka K. R. Narayan
9. J. F. R. Jacob JFR Jacob.jpg 19 April 1998 26 November 1999 1 year, 221 days West Bengal
10. Mohammed Fazal No image available.svg 26 November 1999 25 October 2002 2 years, 333 days Uttar Pradesh
11. Kidar Nath Sahani No image available.svg 26 October 2002 2 July 2004 1 year, 250 days British India A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
- Mohammed Fazal No image available.svg 3 July 2004 16 July 2004 13 days Uttar Pradesh
12. S. C. Jamir Governor S. C. Jamir with CM Naveen Patnaik and President Kovind (cropped).jpg 17 July 2004 21 July 2008 4 years, 4 days Nagaland
13. Shivinder Singh Sidhu Shivinder Singh Sidhu.jpg 22 July 2008 26 August 2011 3 years, 35 days Not Known Pratibha Patil
14. K. Sankaranarayanan Governor of Maharashtra, Shri K. Sankaranarayanan with Vice President Hamid Ansari at TISS in 2013.png 27 August 2011 3 May 2012 250 days Kerala
15. Bharat Vir Wanchoo Bharat Vir Wanchoo, Governor of Goa, India (14554691052).jpg 4 May 2012 4 July 2014 2 years, 61 days Not Known
16. Margaret Alva The Speaker of the Lok Sabha, Shri Somnath Chatterjee addressing at the inauguration of the Orientation Programme for the media persons accredited to the press gallery of Lok Sabha, in New Delhi on July 28, 2006 (cropped).jpg 12 July 2014 5 August 2014 24 days Karnataka Pranab Mukherjee
Om Prakash Kohli Om Prakash Kohli on 22 October 2016.jpg 6 August 2014 25 August 2014 19 days Delhi
17. Mridula Sinha Governor Mridula Sinha.jpg 26 August 2014 2 November 2019 5 years, 68 days Bihar
18. Satyapal Malik The Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, Shri Satya Pal Malik calling on the Union Home Minister, Shri Rajnath Singh, in New Delhi on October 10, 2018 (cropped).JPG 3 November 2019 18 August 2020 289 days Uttar Pradesh Ramnath Kovind
Bhagat Singh Koshyari Karate Coach Dr. Pradeep Kumar Yadav honored by Honorable Governor of Maharashtra Shri Bhagat Singh Koshyari Ji (cropped).jpg 18 August 2020 6 July 2021 322 days Uttarakhand
19. P. S. Sreedharan Pillai PS Sreedharan Pillai.jpg 7 July 2021 Incumbent 3 years, 224 days Kerala

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