| Governor of Goa | |
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| Style | His Excellency |
| Residence | Raj Bhavan, Goa, Panaji |
| Appointer | President of India |
| Term length | Five Years |
| Inaugural holder | Gopal Singh |
| Formation | 30 May 1987 |
| Website | goa |
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]
The governor has:
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.
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 | Maj Gen K. P. Candeth (military governor) |  | 19 December 1961 | 6 June 1962 | 1916–2003 | |
| 2 | Tumkur Sivasankar |  | 7 June 1962 | 1 September 1963 | 189?–19?? | |
| 3 | M. R. Sachdev | | 2 September 1963 | 8 December 1964 | 1903–1964 | |
| 4 | Hari Sharma | | 12 December 1964 | 23 February 1965 | 1910–1987 | |
| 5 | K. R. Damle | | 24 February 1965 | 17 April 1967 | 1912–2001 | |
| 6 | Nakul Sen | | 18 April 1967 | 15 November 1972 | 1915–1983 | |
| 7 | S. K. Banerji | | 16 November 1972 | 15 November 1977 | 1922–2010 | |
| 8 | P. S. Gill | | 16 November 1977 | 30 March 1981 | 1927-living | |
| 9 | Jagmohan |  | 31 March 1981 | 29 August 1982 | 1927–2021 | |
| 10 | Air Chief Marshal I H Latif |  | 30 August 1982 | 23 February 1983 | 1923–2018 | |
| 11 | K. T. Satarawala | | 24 February 1983 | 3 July 1984 | 1930–2016 | |
| 12 | Air Chief Marshal I H Latif | | 4 July 1984 | 23 September 1984 | 1923–2018 | |
| 13 | Gopal Singh |  | 24 September 1984 | 29 May 1987 | 1917–1990 |
Goa became a full-fledged state of India in 1987 and since then has had the following governors: [2]
| • | indicates that this was an additional charge or acting |
| # | Name | Portrait | Took office | Left office | Duration | Home State | Appointed by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Gopal Singh | | 30 May 1987 | 17 July 1989 | 2 years, 48 days | Punjab | Zail Singh |
| 2. | Khurshed Alam Khan |  | 18 July 1989 | 17 March 1991 | 1 year, 242 days | Uttar Pradesh | R. Venkataraman |
| 3. | Bhanu Prakash Singh |  | 18 March 1991 | 3 April 1994 | 3 years, 16 days | Madhya Pradesh | |
| 4. | B. Rachaiah | | 4 April 1994 | 3 August 1994 | 121 days | Karnataka | Shankar Dayal Sharma |
| 5. | Gopala Ramanujam | | 4 August 1994 | 15 June 1995 | 315 days | Tamil Nadu | |
| 6. | Romesh Bhandari |  | 16 June 1995 | 18 July 1996 | 1 year, 32 days | Punjab | |
| 7. | P.C. Alexander | | 19 July 1996 | 15 January 1998 | 1 year, 180 days | Kerala | |
| 8. | T. R. Satish Chandran | | 16 January 1998 | 18 April 1998 | 92 days | Karnataka | K. R. Narayan |
| 9. | J. F. R. Jacob |  | 19 April 1998 | 26 November 1999 | 1 year, 221 days | West Bengal | |
| 10. | Mohammed Fazal | | 26 November 1999 | 25 October 2002 | 2 years, 333 days | Uttar Pradesh | |
| 11. | Kidar Nath Sahani | | 26 October 2002 | 2 July 2004 | 1 year, 250 days | British India | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
| - | Mohammed Fazal | | 3 July 2004 | 16 July 2004 | 13 days | Uttar Pradesh | |
| 12. | S. C. Jamir |  | 17 July 2004 | 21 July 2008 | 4 years, 4 days | Nagaland | |
| 13. | Shivinder Singh Sidhu |  | 22 July 2008 | 26 August 2011 | 3 years, 35 days | Not Known | Pratibha Patil |
| 14. | K. Sankaranarayanan |  | 27 August 2011 | 3 May 2012 | 250 days | Kerala | |
| 15. | Bharat Vir Wanchoo |  | 4 May 2012 | 4 July 2014 | 2 years, 61 days | Not Known | |
| 16. | Margaret Alva |  | 12 July 2014 | 5 August 2014 | 24 days | Karnataka | Pranab Mukherjee |
| – | Om Prakash Kohli |  | 6 August 2014 | 25 August 2014 | 19 days | Delhi | |
| 17. | Mridula Sinha |  | 26 August 2014 | 2 November 2019 | 5 years, 68 days | Bihar | |
| 18. | Satyapal Malik |  | 3 November 2019 | 18 August 2020 | 289 days | Uttar Pradesh | Ramnath Kovind |
| – | Bhagat Singh Koshyari |  | 18 August 2020 | 6 July 2021 | 322 days | Uttarakhand | |
| 19. | P. S. Sreedharan Pillai |  | 7 July 2021 | Incumbent | 3 years, 160 days | Kerala | |
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