List of governors of Goa

The governor of Goa is the nominal head of the Indian state of Goa. The governor is appointed by the president for a term of five years. P. S. Sreedharan Pillai became 22th governor on 7 July 2021.^[1]

Governor of Goa
Emblem of Goa
Incumbent P. S. Sreedharan Pillai since 7 July 2021
Style	His Excellency
Residence	Raj Bhavan, Goa, Panaji
Appointer	President of India
Term length	At the pleasure of the President
Precursor	Lieutenant Governor of Goa, Daman and Diu
Inaugural holder	Gopal Singh
Formation	30 May 1987; 38 years ago (1987-05-30)
Website	goa.gov.in

Powers and functions

See also: Powers and functions of the governor

The governor has:

• Executive powers related to administration, appointments and removals,
• Legislative powers related to lawmaking and the state legislature, that is Vidhan Sabha or Vidhan Parishad, and
• Discretionary powers to be carried out according to the discretion of the governor.

Ex officio powers

• The governor is the chancellor of Goa University and exercises powers delegated under the Goa University Act, 1984, and the statutes of the university.
• The governor is the ex officio president of the Indian Red Cross Society, Goa Branch, and has the powers to appoint the chairman, hon. secretary, etc.
• The governor is the president of the Goa State Environment Protection Council, which is an advisory body, set up by the government of Goa. The council consisting of government authorities and the NGOs engaged in environmental and the related areas meets once in six months and deliberates on various issues on the environment and ecology of the state.
• The governor is the chairman of the Special Fund for Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of Ex-Servicemen and Widows.

Previous governors of Goa

Portuguese governors general

Main article: List of governors of Portuguese India

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.

Lieutenant governors of Goa, Daman and Diu

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

Governors after 1987

Goa became a full-fledged state of India in 1987 and since then has had the following governors:^[2]

Key

•	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	Madhya Pradesh
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	National Capital Territory of 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, 338 days	Kerala

See also

• History of Goa
• Governors of India