List of current Indian lieutenant governors and administrators

Lieutenant Governors and Administrators
Appointer	President of India

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 retired officer from Indian Armed Forces, 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 an armed forces officer or 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.

List

The following lists contain the current lieutenant governors and administrators of the eight union territories of India. ^[1]

Lieutenant Governors

Union territory (past lieutenant governors)	Elected legislature	Name	Portrait	Took office (tenure length)	Appointed by	Ref
Andaman and Nicobar Islands (list)	N	Devendra Kumar Joshi		8 October 2017 (7 years, 290 days)	Ram Nath Kovind	[2]
Delhi (list)	Y (Legislative Assembly)	Vinai Kumar Saxena		26 May 2022 (3 years, 60 days)	Ram Nath Kovind	[3]
Jammu and Kashmir (list)	Y (Legislative Assembly)	Manoj Sinha		7 August 2020 (4 years, 352 days)	Ram Nath Kovind	[4]
Ladakh (list)	N	Kavinder Gupta		18 July 2025 (7 days)	Droupadi Murmu	[5]
Puducherry (list)	Y (Legislative Assembly)	Kuniyil Kailashnathan		7 August 2024 (352 days)	Droupadi Murmu	[6]

Administrators

Union territory (list)	Name	Portrait	Assumed office (Time in office)	Appointed by	Ref.
Chandigarh (list)	Gulab Chand Kataria		31 July 2024 (359 days)	Droupadi Murmu
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (list)	Praful Khoda Patel		26 January 2020 (5 years, 180 days)	Ram Nath Kovind	[7]
Lakshadweep (list)	Praful Khoda Patel (additional charge)		5 December 2020 (4 years, 232 days)	Ram Nath Kovind	[8]

See also

• List of current Indian governors
• List of current Indian chief ministers
• List of current Indian deputy chief ministers
• List of current Indian legislative speakers and chairpersons
• List of current Indian opposition leaders
• List of current Indian chief justices
• List of female lieutenant governors and administrators in India
• List of vice presidents of India

References

1. "Lt. Governors & Administrators". India.gov.in. Retrieved on 29 August 2018.
2. "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.
3. "Vinai Kumar Saxena is the new Lieutenant-Governor of Delhi". The Hindu. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 19 June 2024.
4. "Manoj Sinha takes oath as Jammu and Kashmir LG, says dialogue with people will start soon". India Today. 7 August 2020. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
5. "Haryana, Goa get new governors, J&K ex-Deputy Chief Minister given Ladakh charge". India Today. Retrieved 14 July 2025.
6. "C.P. Radhakrishnan sworn in as Lt. Governor". The Hindu. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 19 June 2024.
7. Administrator of Daman and Diu Official Website of the Union Territory of Daman and Diu. Retrieved on 21 September 2016.
8. "'Black Day' to be observed in Lakshadweep as Praful Khoda Patel returns to island". Hindustan Times. 13 June 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2021.