List of governors of Goa explained

Post:	Governor of Goa
Insignia:	File:Flag of Goa, India.svg
Insigniasize:	200px
Insigniacaption:	Emblem of Goa
Incumbent:	P. S. Sreedharan Pillai
Incumbentsince:	7 July 2021
Style:	His Excellency
Residence:	Raj Bhavan, Goa, Panaji
Termlength:	Five Years
Appointer:	President of India

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]

Powers and functions

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

See 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	Left office	Birth-Death	Duration
1	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	Maj Gen K. P. Candeth (military governor)	19 December 1961	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	6 June 1962	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	1916–2003	bgcolor=#DDEEFF
2	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	Tumkur Sivasankar	7 June 1962	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	1 September 1963	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	189?–19??
3	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	M. R. Sachdev	2 September 1963	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	8 December 1964	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	1903–1964
4	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	Hari Sharma	12 December 1964	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	23 February 1965	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	1910–1987
5	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	K. R. Damle	24 February 1965	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	17 April 1967	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	1912–2001
6	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	Nakul Sen	18 April 1967	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	15 November 1972	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	1915–1983
7	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	S. K. Banerji	16 November 1972	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	15 November 1977	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	1922–2010
8	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	P. S. Gill	16 November 1977	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	30 March 1981	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	1927-living
9	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	Jagmohan	31 March 1981	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	29 August 1982	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	1927–2021
10	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	Air Chief Marshal I H Latif	30 August 1982	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	23 February 1983	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	1923–2018
11	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	K. T. Satarawala	24 February 1983	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	3 July 1984	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	1930–2016
12	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	Air Chief Marshal I H Latif	4 July 1984	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	23 September 1984	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	1923–2018
13	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	Gopal Singh	24 September 1984	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	29 May 1987	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	1917–1990

Governors after 1987

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

	Name	Portrait	Took office	Left office	Duration
1	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	Gopal Singh		30 May 1987	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	17 July 1989
2	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	Khurshed Alam Khan		18 July 1989	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	17 March 1991
3	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	Bhanu Prakash Singh		18 March 1991	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	3 April 1994
4	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	B. Rachaiah		4 April 1994	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	3 August 1994
5	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	Gopala Ramanujam		4 August 1994	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	15 June 1995
6	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	Romesh Bhandari		16 June 1995	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	18 July 1996
7	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	P.C. Alexander		19 July 1996	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	15 January 1998
8	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	T. R. Satish Chandran		16 January 1998	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	18 April 1998
9	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	Lieutenant General J. F. R. Jacob		19 April 1998	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	26 November 1999
10	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	Mohammed Fazal		26 November 1999	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	25 October 2002
11	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	Kidar Nath Sahani		26 October 2002	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	2 July 2004
–	Mohammed Fazal (acting)		3 July 2004	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	16 July 2004
12	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	S. C. Jamir		17 July 2004	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	21 July 2008
13	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	Shivinder Singh Sidhu		22 July 2008	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	26 August 2011
14	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	Kateekal Sankaranarayanan		27 August 2011	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	3 May 2012
15	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	Bharat Vir Wanchoo		4 May 2012	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	4 July 2014
16	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	Margaret Alva		12 July 2014	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	5 August 2014
–	Om Prakash Kohli (additional charge)		6 August 2014	bgcolor=DDEEFF	25 August 2014
17	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	Mridula Sinha		26 August 2014	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	2 November 2019
18	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	Satyapal Malik		3 November 2019	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	18 August 2020
–	Bhagat Singh Koshyari (additional charge)		18 August 2020	bgcolor=DDEEFF	6 July 2021
19	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	P. S. Sreedharan Pillai		7 July 2021	bgcolor=#DDEEFF	Incumbent

Notes and References

News: Prakash Kamat . 31 August 2014 . Mridula Sinha sworn-in as Goa Governor . The Hindu . 11 March 2015 . hindu.
Web site: Governors of Goa since Liberation . rajbhavangoa.org . 9 July 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120326193954/http://www.rajbhavangoa.org/pastgovernors_postliberation.htm . 26 March 2012 . dead .