List of administrators of Chandigarh explained

Post:Administrator
Administrator
Body:Chandigarh
Insigniacaption:Emblem of Chandigarh
Incumbent:Gulab Chand Kataria
Incumbentsince:31 July 2024
Style:His Excellency
Residence:Raj Bhavan
Chandigarh
Termlength:Five Years
Appointer:President of India on the advice of Union Council of Ministers
Inaugural:Bhairab Dutt Pandey
Website:http://chandigarh.gov.in/
Reports To:President of India
Constituting Instrument:Article 239 of the Constitution

Administrator of Chandigarh is appointed by the Union President under article 239 of the Constitution of India.

Since 1984 the Governor of Punjab has acted as the administrator of Chandigarh. His official residence is Raj Bhavan, Punjab in Chandigarh.[1]

Chief commissioners

NamePortraitTook officeLeft officeDuration
1Mohinder Singh Randhawa1 November 196631 October 1968
2Damodar Das 31 October 19688 April 1969
3B. P. Bagchi 8 April 19691 September 1972
4Mohan Prakash Mathur 1 September 1972December 1975
5G. P. Gupta December 197515 June 1976
615 June 1976June 1978
7J. C. Agrawal June 197819 July 1980
8B. S. Sarao 19 July 19808 March 1982
9Krishna Banerjee 8 March 198231 May 1984

Administrators of Chandigarh

NamePortraitTook officeLeft officeDuration
1bgcolor=#DDEEFF Bhairab Dutt Pandey1 June 19842 July 1984bgcolor=#DDEEFF
2bgcolor=#DDEEFF Kershasp Tehmurasp Satarawala3 July 198414 March 1985bgcolor=#DDEEFF
3bgcolor=#DDEEFF Arjun Singh14 March 198514 November 1985bgcolor=#DDEEFF
-bgcolor=#DDEEFF Hokishe Sema (addl. charge)14 November 198526 November 1985bgcolor=#DDEEFF
4bgcolor=#DDEEFF Shankar Dayal Sharma26 November 19852 April 1986bgcolor=#DDEEFF
5bgcolor=#DDEEFF Siddharta Shankar Ray2 April 19868 December 1989bgcolor=#DDEEFF
6bgcolor=#DDEEFF Nirmal Mukarji8 December 198914 June 1990bgcolor=#DDEEFF
7bgcolor=#DDEEFF Virendra Verma14 June 199018 December 1990
8bgcolor=#DDEEFF Om Prakash Malhotra18 December 19907 August 1991
9bgcolor=#DDEEFF Surendra Nath7 August 19919 July 1994
-bgcolor=#DDEEFF Sudhakar Panditrao Kurdukar10 July 199418 September 1994
10bgcolor=#DDEEFF B. K. N. Chhibber18 September 199427 November 1999
11bgcolor=#DDEEFF J. F. R. Jacob27 November 19998 May 2003
12bgcolor=#DDEEFF Om Prakash Verma8 May 20033 November 2004
-bgcolor=#DDEEFF Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai (addl. charge)3 November 200416 November 2004
13bgcolor=#DDEEFF Sunith Francis Rodrigues16 November 200422 January 2010
14bgcolor=#DDEEFF Shivraj Patil22 January 201021 January 2015
-bgcolor=#DDEEFF Kaptan Singh Solanki
(addl. charge)
21 January 201522 August 2016
15bgcolor=#DDEEFF V. P. Singh Badnore22 August 201630 August 2021
16bgcolor=#DDEEFF Banwarilal Purohit31 August 202130 July 2024
17bgcolor=#DDEEFF Gulab Chand Kataria31 July 2024Incumbent

See also

References

Notes and References

  1. News: The Indian Express . Meaning: Administrator of the Union Territory of Chandigarh . 16 January 2024 . 22 August 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240116130711/https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/vp-singh-badnore-punjab-governor-administrator-of-the-union-territory-of-chandigarh-2989424/ . 16 January 2024 . en.