List of current Indian lieutenant governors and administrators
In the Republic of India, a lieutenant governor is the constitutional head of five of the eight union territories. The lieutenant governor is appointed by the President of India for a term of five years, and holds office at the President's pleasure. Since the union territories of Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir and Puducherry have a measure of self-government with an elected legislature and council of ministers, the role of the lieutenant governor there is mostly a ceremonial one, akin to that of a state's governor. In Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Ladakh however, the lieutenant governor holds more power, being both the head of state and head of government.
The other three union territories—Chandigarh; Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu; and Lakshadweep—are governed by an administrator. Unlike the lieutenant governors of other territories, they are usually drawn from the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) or Indian Police Service (IPS). Since 1985 the Governor of Punjab has also been the ex-officio Administrator of Chandigarh.
Praful Khoda Patel, till date, is the only administrator of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu who is not a civil servant (i.e. IAS or IPS), rather a politician. He was also given the additional charge of Lakshadweep after the death of Dineshwar Sharma.
Current Indian lieutenant governorsEdit
| Union territory (past lieutenant governors) |
Elected legislature? | Name[1] | Portrait | Took office (tenure length) |
Appointed by | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands (list) |
|
Devendra Kumar Joshi | 
|
8 October 2017 (7 years, 232 days) |
Ram Nath Kovind | [2] |
| Delhi (list) |
|
Anil Baijal | 
|
31 December 2016 (8 years, 148 days) |
Pranab Mukherjee | [3] |
| Jammu and Kashmir (list) |
|
Manoj Sinha | File:Manoj Sinha Profile Pic.jpeg | 7 August 2020 (4 years, 294 days) |
Ram Nath Kovind | [4] |
| Ladakh (list) |
|
R. K. Mathur | 
|
31 October 2019 (5 years, 209 days) |
[5] | |
| Puducherry (list) |
|
Tamilisai Soundararajan (additional charge) |
|
18 February 2021 (4 years, 99 days) |
Current Indian administratorsEdit
| Union territory (past administrators) |
Name[1] | Portrait | Took office (tenure length) |
Appointed by | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chandigarh (list) |
Banwarilal Purohit |
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|
31 August 2021 (3 years, 270 days) |
Ram Nath Kovind | [6] |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (list) |
Praful Khoda Patel | 
|
26 January 2020 (5 years, 122 days) |
[7] | |
| Lakshadweep (list) |
Praful Khoda Patel (additional charge) |
|
5 December 2020 (4 years, 174 days) |
[8] |
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Lt. Governors & Administrators". India.gov.in. Retrieved on 29 August 2018.
- ↑ "Admiral D K Joshi (Retd.) sworn in as the 13th Lt. Governor of A& N Islands". The Island Reflector. 8 October 2017. Archived from the original on 22 October 2017.
- ↑ "Anil Baijal sworn in as Delhi Lieutenant-Governor". The Hindu. 31 December 2016.
- ↑ "Manoj Sinha takes oath as Jammu and Kashmir LG, says dialogue with people will start soon". India Today. 7 August 2020.
- ↑ "RK Mathur takes oath as Ladakh’s first Lieutenant Governor". The Indian Express. 31 October 2019.
- ↑ "V. P. Singh Badnore sworn in as new Punjab Governor". The Indian Express. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
- ↑ Administrator of Daman and Diu Official Website of the Union Territory of Daman and Diu. Retrieved on 21 September 2016.
- ↑ "'Black Day' to be observed in Lakshadweep as Praful Khoda Patel returns to island". Hindustan Times. 13 June 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
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