List of Administrators of Lakshadweep

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Administrator of Lakshadweep
Incumbent
Shri Mihir Vardhan IAS

since 19 July 2019
Style The Honourable
Appointer President of India
Term length Five Years
Inaugural holderU. R. Panicker
Formation1 November 1956;62 years ago (1956-11-01)

The Administrator of Lakshadweep is the Head of the Union Territory of Lakshadweep. He is also the Chairman of Lakshadweep Development Corporation (a U.T. Administration public sector undertaking) and SPORTS (Society for Promotion of Recreational Tourism and Sports). He functions ex officio as the Inspector General of Lakshadweep Police.

Lakshadweep Southwest Union Territory of India

Lakshadweep, formerly known as the Laccadive, Minicoy, and Aminidivi Islands, is a group of islands in the Laccadive Sea, 200 to 440 km off the southwestern coast of India. The archipelago is a Union Territory and is governed by the Union Government of India. They were also known as Laccadive Islands, although geographically this is only the name of the central subgroup of the group. Lakshadweep means "one hundred thousand islands" in Sanskrit and Malayalam. The islands form the smallest Union Territory of India and their total surface area is just 32 km2 (12 sq mi). The lagoon area covers about 4,200 km2 (1,600 sq mi), the territorial waters area 20,000 km2 (7,700 sq mi) and the exclusive economic zone area 400,000 km2 (150,000 sq mi). The region forms a single Indian district with 10 subdivisions. Kavaratti serves as the capital of the Union Territory and the region comes under the jurisdiction of Kerala High Court. The islands are the northernmost of the Lakshadweep-Maldives-Chagos group of islands, which are the tops of a vast undersea mountain range, the Chagos-Laccadive Ridge.

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Administrators

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xxxNameTook OfficeLeft Office
1U. R. Panicker1 November 19567 November 1956
2S. Mony8 November 195621 September 1958
3C. K. Balakrishna Nair22 September 19585 December 1961
4M. Ramunny6 December 19618 April 1965
5C. H. Naire9 April 196531 October 1969
6K. D. Menon1 November 196930 April 1973
7W. Shaiza22 May 197321 June 1975
8M. C. Verma22 June 197514 February 1977
9S. D. Lakhar21 February 197730 July 1978
10P. M. Nair31 July 197815 June 1981
11Pradip Mehra15 June 198121 July 1982
12Omesh Saigal21 July 19829 July 1985
13J. Sagar9 July 19858 September 1987
14 Wajahat Habibullah 8 September 198731 January 1990
15Pradip Singh1 February 19901 May 1990
16S. P. Aggarwal2 May 19903 May 1992
17Satish Chandra4 May 19929 September 1994
18G.S. Chima9 September 199414 June 1996
19Rajeev Talwar1 August 19961 June 1999
20R. K. Verma1 June 199920 August 1999
21Chaman Lal21 August 199930 April 2001
(20)R. K. Verma30 April 200119 June 2001
22K. S. Mehra19 June 200120 June 2004
23S. P. Singh21 June 200421 November 2004
24Parimal Rai22 November 200411 August 2006
25Rajendra Kumar11 August 200621 December 2006
26B. V. Selvaraj22 December 200616 May 2009
27Satya Gopal27 May 200912 July 2009
28J. K. Dadoo13 July 200915 June 2011
29Amar Nath11 July 20112012
30 H. Rajesh Prasad 7 November 2012 [2] 22 October 2015
31Vijay Kumar25 October 20156 September 2016
32 Farooq Khan 6 September 201618 July 2019
33 Shri Mihir Vardhan IAS 19 July 2019Incumbent

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References

  1. "Shri Amar Nath is the 30th Administrator... Archived 2011-11-11 at the Wayback Machine " [pdf]. The Lakshadweep Times, p. 3. 12 July 2011. Director of Information and Public Relations, Lakshadweep Administration. Retrieved on 23 February 2013.
  2. Bio-data of the Hon'ble Administrator. Official Website of Union Territory of Lakshadweep. Retrieved on 23 February 2013.