Administrator of Lakshadweep | |
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Style | The Honourable |
Appointer | President of India |
Term length | Five Years |
Inaugural holder | U. R. Panicker |
Formation | 1 November 1956 |
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, 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.
xxx | Name | Took Office | Left Office |
1 | U. R. Panicker | 1 November 1956 | 7 November 1956 |
2 | S. Mony | 8 November 1956 | 21 September 1958 |
3 | C. K. Balakrishna Nair | 22 September 1958 | 5 December 1961 |
4 | M. Ramunny | 6 December 1961 | 8 April 1965 |
5 | C. H. Naire | 9 April 1965 | 31 October 1969 |
6 | K. D. Menon | 1 November 1969 | 30 April 1973 |
7 | W. Shaiza | 22 May 1973 | 21 June 1975 |
8 | M. C. Verma | 22 June 1975 | 14 February 1977 |
9 | S. D. Lakhar | 21 February 1977 | 30 July 1978 |
10 | P. M. Nair | 31 July 1978 | 15 June 1981 |
11 | Pradip Mehra | 15 June 1981 | 21 July 1982 |
12 | Omesh Saigal | 21 July 1982 | 9 July 1985 |
13 | J. Sagar | 9 July 1985 | 8 September 1987 |
14 | Wajahat Habibullah | 8 September 1987 | 31 January 1990 |
15 | Pradip Singh | 1 February 1990 | 1 May 1990 |
16 | S. P. Aggarwal | 2 May 1990 | 3 May 1992 |
17 | Satish Chandra | 4 May 1992 | 9 September 1994 |
18 | G.S. Chima | 9 September 1994 | 14 June 1996 |
19 | Rajeev Talwar | 1 August 1996 | 1 June 1999 |
20 | R. K. Verma | 1 June 1999 | 20 August 1999 |
21 | Chaman Lal | 21 August 1999 | 30 April 2001 |
(20) | R. K. Verma | 30 April 2001 | 19 June 2001 |
22 | K. S. Mehra | 19 June 2001 | 20 June 2004 |
23 | S. P. Singh | 21 June 2004 | 21 November 2004 |
24 | Parimal Rai | 22 November 2004 | 11 August 2006 |
25 | Rajendra Kumar | 11 August 2006 | 21 December 2006 |
26 | B. V. Selvaraj | 22 December 2006 | 16 May 2009 |
27 | Satya Gopal | 27 May 2009 | 12 July 2009 |
28 | J. K. Dadoo | 13 July 2009 | 15 June 2011 |
29 | Amar Nath | 11 July 2011 | 2012 |
30 | H. Rajesh Prasad | 7 November 2012 [2] | 22 October 2015 |
31 | Vijay Kumar | 25 October 2015 | 6 September 2016 |
32 | Farooq Khan | 6 September 2016 | 18 July 2019 |
33 | Shri Mihir Vardhan IAS | 19 July 2019 | Incumbent |
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