List of governors of Goa explained

The governor of Goa is a nominal head and representative of the president of India in the 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.^[1]

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

See main article: List of governors of Portuguese India. 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.^[2]

	Name	Portrait	Took office	Left office	Birth-Death	Duration
1	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	Maj Gen K. P. Candeth (military governor)		19 December 1961	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	6 June 1962	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	1916–2003	bgcolor=#DDEEFF
2	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	Tumkur Sivasankar		7 June 1962	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	1 September 1963	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	189?–19??
3	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	M. R. Sachdev		2 September 1963	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	8 December 1964	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	1903–1964
4	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	Hari Sharma		12 December 1964	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	23 February 1965	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	1910–1987
5	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	K. R. Damle		24 February 1965	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	17 April 1967	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	1912–2001
6	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	Nakul Sen		18 April 1967	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	15 November 1972	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	1915–1983
7	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	S. K. Banerji		16 November 1972	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	15 November 1977	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	1922–2010
8	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	P. S. Gill		16 November 1977	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	30 March 1981	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	1927-living
9	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	Jagmohan		31 March 1981	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	29 August 1982	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	1927–2021
10	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	Air Chief Marshal I H Latif		30 August 1982	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	23 February 1983	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	1923–2018
11	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	K. T. Satarawala		24 February 1983	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	3 July 1984	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	1930–2016
12	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	Air Chief Marshal I H Latif		4 July 1984	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	23 September 1984	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	1923–2018
13	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	Gopal Singh		24 September 1984	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	29 May 1987	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	1917–1990

Governors after 1987

Goa became a full-fledged state of India in 1987 and since then has had the following governors:^[2]

Key

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	Name	Portrait	Took office	Left office	Duration	Home State	Appointed by
1.	Gopal Singh		30 May 1987	17 July 1989		Punjab	Zail Singh
2.	Khurshed Alam Khan		18 July 1989	17 March 1991		Uttar Pradesh	R. Venkataraman
3.	Bhanu Prakash Singh		18 March 1991	3 April 1994		Madhya Pradesh
4.	B. Rachaiah		4 April 1994	3 August 1994		Karnataka	Shankar Dayal Sharma
5.	Gopala Ramanujam		4 August 1994	15 June 1995		Tamil Nadu
6.	Romesh Bhandari		16 June 1995	18 July 1996		Punjab
7.	P.C. Alexander		19 July 1996	15 January 1998		Kerala
8.	T. R. Satish Chandran		16 January 1998	18 April 1998		Karnataka	K. R. Narayan
9.	J. F. R. Jacob		19 April 1998	26 November 1999		West Bengal
10.	Mohammed Fazal		26 November 1999	25 October 2002		Uttar Pradesh
11.	Kidar Nath Sahani		26 October 2002	2 July 2004		British India	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
bgcolor=wheat	-	bgcolor=wheat		bgcolor=wheat		bgcolor=wheat		3 July 2004	bgcolor=wheat	16 July 2004	bgcolor=wheat		bgcolor=wheat	Uttar Pradesh
12.	S. C. Jamir		17 July 2004	21 July 2008		Nagaland
13.	Shivinder Singh Sidhu		22 July 2008	26 August 2011		Not Known	Pratibha Patil
14.	K. Sankaranarayanan		27 August 2011	3 May 2012		Kerala
15.	Bharat Vir Wanchoo		4 May 2012	4 July 2014		Not Known
16.	Margaret Alva		12 July 2014	5 August 2014		Karnataka	Pranab Mukherjee
bgcolor=wheat	–	bgcolor=wheat		bgcolor=wheat		bgcolor=wheat		6 August 2014	bgcolor=wheat	25 August 2014	bgcolor=wheat		bgcolor=wheat	Delhi
17.	Mridula Sinha		26 August 2014	2 November 2019		Bihar
18.	Satyapal Malik		3 November 2019	18 August 2020		Uttar Pradesh	Ramnath Kovind
bgcolor=wheat	–	bgcolor=wheat	Bhagat Singh Koshyari	bgcolor=wheat		bgcolor=wheat		18 August 2020	bgcolor=wheat	6 July 2021	bgcolor=wheat		bgcolor=wheat	Uttarakhand
19.	P. S. Sreedharan Pillai		7 July 2021	Incumbent		Kerala

See also

• History of Goa
• Governors of India

Notes and References

1. News: Prakash Kamat . 31 August 2014 . Mridula Sinha sworn-in as Goa Governor . The Hindu . 11 March 2015 . hindu.
2. Web site: Governors of Goa since Liberation . rajbhavangoa.org . 9 July 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120326193954/http://www.rajbhavangoa.org/pastgovernors_postliberation.htm . 26 March 2012 . dead .