List of governors of Nagaland

The governor of Nagaland is the head of state of Nagaland. The governor is appointed by the president of India. Current governor is the 21st if governors with additional charge also counted.

Governor of Nagaland
Incumbent La. Ganesan since 20 February 2023
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.)
Formation	1 December 1963; 61 years ago (1963-12-01)
Website	rajbhavan.nagaland.gov.in

The state of Nagaland is on the border with Burma.

Powers and functions

See also: Powers and functions of the governor

The governor enjoys many different types of powers:

• 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.

Governors of Nagaland

Key

‡	indicates that this was an additional charge

#	Name	Portrait	Took office	Left office	Duration	Home State	Appointed by
1.	Vishnu Sahay		1 December 1963	16 April 1968	4 years, 137 days	Uttar Pradesh	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
2.	Braj Kumar Nehru		17 April 1968	18 September 1973	5 years, 154 days		Zakir Husain
3.	Lallan Prasad Singh		19 September 1973	9 August 1981	7 years, 324 days	Bihar	V. V. Giri
4.	S. M. H. Burney		10 August 1981	12 June 1984	2 years, 307 days	Uttar Pradesh	Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy
5.	K. V. Krishna Rao		13 June 1984	19 July 1989	5 years, 36 days	Andhra Pradesh	Zail Singh
6.	Gopal Singh		20 July 1989	3 May 1990	287 days	Punjab	R. Venkataraman
7.	M. M. Thomas		9 May 1990	12 April 1992	1 year, 339 days	Kerala
8.	Loknath Mishra		13 April 1992	1 October 1993	1 year, 171 days	Odisha
9.	V. K. Nayar		2 October 1993	4 August 1994	306 days	Not Known	Shankar Dayal Sharma
10.	Oudh Narayan Shrivastava		5 August 1994	11 November 1996	2 years, 98 days	Madhya Pradesh
11.	Om Prakash Sharma		12 November 1996	27 January 2002	5 years, 76 days	Not Known
12.	Shyamal Datta		28 January 2002	2 February 2007	5 years, 5 days	West Bengal	K. R. Narayan
13.	K. Sankaranarayanan		3 February 2007	28 July 2009	2 years, 175 days	Kerala	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
14.	Gurbachan Jagat		28 July 2009	14 Oct 2009	78 days	Not Known	Pratibha Patil
15.	Nikhil Kumar		15 Oct 2009	20 March 2013	3 years, 156 days	Bihar
16.	Ashwani Kumar		21 March 2013	27 June 2014	1 year, 98 days	Himachal Pradesh	Pranab Mukherjee
-	Krishan Kant Paul ‡[1]		2 July 2014	19 July 2014	17 days	Punjab
17.	Padmanabha Acharya[2]		19 July 2014	31 July 2019	5 years, 12 days	Karnataka
18.	R. N. Ravi		1 August 2019	17 September 2021	2 years, 47 days	Bihar	Ramnath Kovind
-	Jagdish Mukhi ‡		17 September 2021	19 February 2023	1 year, 155 days	Delhi
19.	La. Ganesan		20 February 2023	Incumbent	2 years, 77 days	Tamil Nadu	Draupadi Murmu

See also

• Nagaland
• Governors of India
• Chief Minister of Nagaland