List of governors of Nagaland

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Governor of Nagaland
Ajay Bhalla in 2025 (cropped).jpg
since 25 August 2025
Style His Excellency
Residence Raj Bhavan; Kohima
Appointer President of India
Term length At the pleasure of the president
Inaugural holder Vishnu Sahay, ICS (Retd.)
Formation1 December 1963;61 years ago (1963-12-01)
Website rajbhavan.nagaland.gov.in
The state of Nagaland is on the border with Burma. IN-NL.svg
The state of Nagaland is on the border with Burma.

The governor of Nagaland is the head of state of Nagaland. The governor is appointed by the president of India. The current governor is Ajay Kumar Bhalla.

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Powers and functions

The governor enjoys many different types of powers:

List

Legend
Color key
#PortraitName
(born died)
Home stateTenure in officeAppointer
(President)
FromToTime in office
1 No image (male).svg Vishnu Sahay
ICS (Retd)
(1901–1989)
Uttar Pradesh 1 December
1963 [α]
16 April
1968
4 years, 137 days Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
2 Braj Kumar Nehru with Kennedy (cropped).jpg Braj Kumar Nehru
ICS (Retd)
(1909–2001)
Uttar Pradesh 17 April
1968 [β]
18 September
1973
5 years, 154 days Zakir Husain
3 No image (male).svg Lallan Prasad Singh
ICS (Retd)
(1912–1998)
Bihar 19 September
1973 [γ]
9 August
1981
7 years, 324 days V. V. Giri
4 No image (male).svg S. M. H. Burney
IAS (Retd)
(1924–2014)
Uttar Pradesh 10 August
1981 [δ]
12 June
1984 [§] [ε]
2 years, 307 days Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
5 General Kotikalapudi Venkata Krishna Rao.jpg General
K. V. Krishna Rao (Retd)
PVSM
(1923–2016)
Andhra Pradesh 13 June
1984 [δ]
19 July
1989 [§] [ζ]
5 years, 36 days Zail Singh
6 Gopal Singh Rajya Sabha photo.jpg Gopal Singh
(1917–1990)
Punjab 20 July
1989
3 May
1990 [‡]
287 days Ramaswamy Venkataraman
7 No image (male).svg M. M. Thomas
(1916–1996)
Kerala 9 May
1990
12 April
1992 [‡]
1 year, 339 days
Lokanath Misra.jpg Lokanath Misra
(1921–2009)
Governor of Assam

(Additional Charge)
Orissa 13 April
1992
1 October
1993
1 year, 171 days
No image (male).svg Lieutenant General
V. K. Nayar (Retd)
PVSM SM
(d. 2015)
Governor of Manipur

(Additional Charge)
2 October
1993
4 August
1994
306 days Shankar Dayal Sharma
8 Oudh Narayan Shrivastava.jpg Oudh Narayan Shrivastava
IPS (Retd)
(born 1935)
Madhya Pradesh 23 December
1994
11 November
1996 [§] [η]
4 years, 343 days
9 Om Prakash Sharma Governor.jpg Om Prakash Sharma
IPS (Retd)
Punjab 12 November
1996
27 January
2002
5 years, 76 days
10 Shyamal Dutta.jpg Shyamal Datta
IPS (Retd)
(born 1941)
West Bengal 28 January
2002
2 February
2007
5 years, 5 days K. R. Narayanan
11 Governor of Maharashtra, Shri K. Sankaranarayanan with Vice President Hamid Ansari at TISS in 2013.png Kateekal Sankaranarayanan
(1932–2022)
Kerala 3 February
2007
28 July
2009 [§] [θ]
2 years, 175 days A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Gurbachan Jagat.jpg Gurbachan Jagat
IPS (Retd)
(born 1942)
Governor of Manipur

(Additional Charge)
Chandigarh 28 July
2009
14 Oct
2009
78 days Pratibha Patil
12 Nikhil Kumar Nagaland Governor (cropped).jpg Nikhil Kumar
IPS (Retd)
(born 1941)
Bihar 15 October
2009
20 March
2013 [§] [ι]
3 years, 156 days
13 The Governor of Nagaland, Shri Ashwani Kumar calling on the Union Home Minister, Shri Rajnath Singh, in New Delhi on June 20, 2014 (cropped).jpg Ashwani Kumar
IPS (Retd)
(1950–2020)
Himachal Pradesh 21 March
2013
1 July
2014 [‡]
1 year, 102 days Pranab Mukherjee
Governor of Uttarakhand Krishan Kant Paul (cropped).jpg Krishan Kant Paul
IPS (Retd)
(born 1948)
Governor of Meghalaya

(Additional Charge)
Chandigarh 2 July
2014
19 July
2014
17 days
14 Smriti Irani meeting the Governor of Tripura Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya (cropped).jpg Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya
(1931–2023)
Karnataka 19 July
2014
31 July
2019
5 years, 12 days
15 R.N. Ravi.jpg R. N. Ravi
IPS (Retd)
(born 1952)
Bihar 1 August
2019
17 September
2021 [§] [κ]
2 years, 16 days Ram Nath Kovind
Prof Jagdish Mukhi (cropped).jpg Jagdish Mukhi
(born 1942)
Governor of Assam

(Additional Charge)
Delhi 17 September
2021
19 February
2023
1 year, 155 days
16 La Ganesan Ji (cropped).jpg La. Ganesan
(1945–2025)
Tamil Nadu 20 February
2023
15 August
2025 [†]
2 years, 176 days Droupadi Murmu
Ajay Bhalla in 2025 (cropped).jpg Ajay Kumar Bhalla
IAS (Retd)
(born 1960)
Governor of Manipur

(Additional Charge)
Punjab 25 August
2025
incumbent2 days
  1. Concurrently also served as the Governor of Assam
  2. Concurrently also served as the Governor of Assam (1968–1973); and as the Governor of Meghalaya, Manipur, and Tripura (1972–1973)
  3. Concurrently also served as the Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, and Tripura
  4. 1 2 Concurrently also served as the Governor of Manipur and Tripura
  5. Transferred as the Governor of Haryana
  6. Transferred as the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir
  7. Transferred as the Governor of Manipur
  8. Transferred as the Governor of Jharkhand
  9. Transferred as the Governor of Kerala
  10. Transferred as the Governor of Tamil Nadu

See also

Notes and references

    https://nagaland.gov.in/governors