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List of Governors in India 2020 (States & Union Territories) – Download PDF!

July 25, 2019

List of Governors in India 2020. If you are preparing for SSC, Bank, Railway and other competitive exams, you will come across a section on the Static GK. Check out the updated list of Governors here! List of Governors in India is a very important topic for competitive exams.

This List of Governors in India 2020 is important and useful for upcoming competitive exams. As per previous years’ exam trend, 1-2 questions are generally asked from this topic so we have compiled the List of Governors in India.

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Note: Government has made some recent changes in the Governors List we have highlighted them separately below.

Girish Chandra Murmu – First Lieutenant Governor of Jammu & Kashmir*
Radha Krishna Mathur – New Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh

List of Governors in India 2020 – States

Check out the State-wise Current Governors of India in the table mentioned below.

State	Governor
Andhra Pradesh	Biswabhusan Harichandan
Arunachal Pradesh	Brigadier (Dr.) B.D.Mishra
Assam	Jagdish Mukhi
Bihar	Phagu Chauhan
Chhattisgarh	Anusuiya Uikey
Goa	Bhagat Singh Koshyari
Gujarat	Acharya Devvrat
Haryana	Satyadev Narayan Arya
Himachal Pradesh	Bandaru Dattatreya
Jharkhand	Draupadi Murmu
Kerala	Arif Mohammad Khan
Karnataka	Vajubhai Vala
Maharashtra	Bhagat Singh Koshyari
Madhya Pradesh	Anandi Ben Patel
Manipur	Najma Heptulla
Meghalaya	Satya Pal Malik
Mizoram	P.S.Sreedharan Pillai
Nagaland	R.N.Ravi
Orissa	Ganeshi Lal
Punjab	V.P.Singh Badnore
Rajasthan	Kalraj Mishra
Sikkim	Ganga Prasad
Tamil Nadu	Banwarilal Purohit
Telangana	Tamilisai Soundararajan
Tripura	Ramesh Bais
Uttarakhand	Baby Rani Maurya
Uttar Pradesh	Anandiben Patel
West Bengal	Jagdeep Dhankhar

Lieutenant Governors in India 2020 – Union Territories

Check out the Union Territories-wise Current Governors of India in the table mentioned below.

Union Territory	Lieutenant Governor / Administrator
Andaman and Nicobar Islands	Admiral Devendra Kumar Joshi (Lieutenant governor)
Chandigarh	V.P.Singh Badnore (Administrator)
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu	Praful Khoda Patel (Administrator)
Delhi	Anil Baijal (Lieutenant governor)
Jammu & Kashmir	Manoj Sinha (Lieutenant governor)
Ladakh	R.K.Mathur (Lieutenant governor)
Lakshadweep	Dineshwar Sharma (Administrator)
Puducherry	Kiran Bedi (Lieutenant governor)

Sample Questions for List of Governors in India

Given below are a few sample questions related to the list of Governors in India which may help aspirants analyse the type of questions that may be asked from this topic in the upcoming government exams.

Q 1. Who was the first woman Governor of an Indian state?

Q 2. Who appoints the Governor of a State?

Q 3. Which of the following is not a responsibility of the state Governor? (Here candidates will have to choose the answer from the given options)

Q 4. What is the minimum age for a person to be eligible to become the Governor of a state?

Q 5. Who took over the post of Governor in Uttar Pradesh after Shri Ram Naik? (This may be asked with respect to any other state/UT)

Q 6. Who was the first Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh?

Q 7. Which article of Indian Constitution provides for a Governor?

Q 8. Who has the authority to remove or replace the Governor of a State?

The questions mentioned above are just for the candidate’s reference. Candidates can refer to these questions and prepare themselves for the Government exams 2020.