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, 305 days)	[1]
Arunachal Pradesh (list)	Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik	16 February 2023 (1 year, 309 days)	[2]
Assam (list)	Gulab Chand Kataria	22 February 2023 (1 year, 303 days)	[3]
Bihar (list)	Rajendra Arlekar	18 February 2023 (1 year, 307 days)	[4]
Chhattisgarh (list)	Biswabhusan Harichandan	22 February 2023 (1 year, 303 days)	[5]
Goa (list)	P. S. Sreedharan Pillai	15 July 2021 (3 years, 159 days)	[6]
Gujarat (list)	Acharya Devvrat	22 July 2019 (5 years, 152 days)	[7]
Haryana (list)	Bandaru Dattatreya	15 July 2021 (3 years, 159 days)	[8]
Himachal Pradesh (list)	Shiv Pratap Shukla	18 February 2023 (1 year, 307 days)	[9]
Jharkhand (list)	C. P. Radhakrishnan	18 February 2023 (1 year, 307 days)	[10]
Karnataka (list)	Thawar Chand Gehlot	11 July 2021 (3 years, 163 days)	[11]
Kerala (list)	Arif Mohammad Khan	6 September 2019 (5 years, 106 days)	[12]
Madhya Pradesh (list)	Mangubhai C. Patel	8 July 2021 (3 years, 166 days)	[13]
Maharashtra (list)	Ramesh Bais	18 February 2023 (1 year, 307 days)	[14]
Manipur (list)	Anusuiya Uikey	22 February 2023 (1 year, 303 days)	[15]
Meghalaya (list)	Phagu Chauhan	18 February 2023 (1 year, 307 days)	[16]
Mizoram (list)	Kambhampati Hari Babu	6 November 2021 (3 years, 45 days)	[17]
Nagaland (list)	La. Ganesan	20 February 2023 (1 year, 305 days)	[18]
Odisha (list)	Raghubar Das	31 October 2023 (1 year, 51 days)	[19]
Punjab (list)	Banwarilal Purohit	31 August 2021 (3 years, 112 days)	[20]
Rajasthan (list)	Kalraj Mishra	9 September 2019 (5 years, 103 days)	[21]
Sikkim (list)	Lakshman Acharya	16 February 2023 (1 year, 309 days)	[22]
Tamil Nadu (list)	R. N. Ravi	18 September 2021 (3 years, 94 days)	[23]
Telangana (list)	C. P. Radhakrishnan (additional charge)	19 March 2024 (277 days)
Tripura (list)	Indrasena Reddy	26 October 2023 (1 year, 56 days)	[24]
Uttar Pradesh (list)	Anandiben Patel	29 July 2019 (5 years, 145 days)	[25]
Uttarakhand (list)	Gurmit Singh	15 September 2021 (3 years, 97 days)	[26]
West Bengal (list)	C. V. Ananda Bose	23 November 2022 (2 years, 28 days)	[27]