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Governor of Meghalaya
The Minister of State for Tourism (IC), Shri Alphons Kannanthanam meeting the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh, Brigadier (Retd.) (Dr.) B.D. Mishra, in New Delhi on July 31, 2018 (cropped).JPG
Incumbent
B. D. Mishra
(additional charge)

since 4 October 2022
Style His Excellency
Residence Raj Bhavan; Shillong
Appointer President of India
Term length Five Years
Formation 21 January 1972; 52 years ago (1972-01-21)

List of governors

This is a list of the governors of Meghalaya state in northeastern India. Meghalaya became an autonomous state within Assam on 1 April 1970 and a separate state on 21 January 1972.

# Name Took office Left office
1 Braj Kumar Nehru 1 April 1970 18 September 1973
2 Lallan Prasad Singh 19 September 1973 10 August 1981
3 Prakash Mehrotra 11 August 1981 28 March 1984
4 Tribeni Sahai Misra 29 March 1984 15 April 1984
5 Bhishma Narain Singh 16 April 1984 10 May 1989
6 Harideo Joshi 11 May 1989 26 July 1989
7 Abubakar Abdul Rahim 27 July 1989 8 May 1990
8 Madhukar Dighe 9 May 1990 18 June 1995
9 M. M. Jacob 19 June 1995 11 April 2007
10 Banwari Lal Joshi 12 April 2007 28 October 2007
11 Shivinder Singh Sidhu 29 October 2007 30 June 2008
12 Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary 1 July 2008 30 June 2013
13 Krishan Kant Paul 1 July 2013 6 January 2015
14 Keshari Nath Tripathi 6 January 2015 19 May 2015
15 V. Shanmuganathan 20 May 2015 27 January 2017 (Resigned)
16 Banwarilal Purohit 27 January 2017
(Assumed full charge from 30 September 2017)
5 October 2017
17 Ganga Prasad 5 October 2017 25 August 2018
18 Tathagata Roy 25 August 2018 18 December 2019
- R. N. Ravi (additional charge) 18 December 2019 26 January 2020
(18) Tathagata Roy 27 January 2020 18 August 2020
19 Satya Pal Malik 18 August 2020 03 October 2022
- B. D. Mishra (additional charge) 04 October 2022 Incumbent

See also

  • Meghalaya
  • Governors of India
  • Chief Minister of Meghalaya
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