The Governor of Goa is a nominal head and representative of the President of India

President of India

The President of India is the head of state and first citizen of India, as well as the Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces. President of India is also the formal head of all the three branches of Indian Democracy - Legislature, Executive and Judiciary...

 in the state of Goa

Goa

Goa , a former Portuguese colony, is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Located in South West India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its...

. The Governor is appointed by the President for a term of 5 years. H.E.

Excellency

Excellency is an honorific style given to certain members of an organization or state.Usually, people styled "Excellency" are heads of state, heads of government, governors, ambassadors, certain ecclesiastics, royalty, aristocracy, and military, and others holding equivalent rank .It is...

 Shivinder Singh Sidhu

Shivinder Singh Sidhu

Shivinder Singh Sidhu is an Indian political figure, currently serving as Governor of Goa.He was earlier an IAS officer of 1952 batch belonging to the Uttar Pradesh cadre. While in the state, he served as the District Magistrate of Kanpur and subsequently as Commissioner of Agra Division...

 is the current governor (assumed charge of office on 21 July 2008).

Powers and functions

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.

Ex Officio Powers

• The Governor is the Chancellor of the Goa University
  Goa University
  Goa University was established in 1985 and merged with the Centre for Post Graduate Instruction and Research of the University of Bombay that functioned at state-capital Panaji or Panjim. Goa University offers both graduate and post-graduate studies and research programmes...
  
   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.

Portuguese Governors General

The first Portuguese Governor General was Francisco de Almeida

Francisco de Almeida

Dom Francisco de Almeida , also known as "the Great Dom Francisco" , was a Portuguese nobleman, soldier and explorer. He distinguished himself as a counsellor to King John II of Portugal and later in the wars against the Moors and in the conquest of Granada in 1492...

 in 1505 and the last Manuel Antonio Vassalo E Silva who left office in 1961. In total there have been 163 Governor Generals. For a complete list see http://www.rajbhavangoa.org/html/09_body_portgov.htm.

Lieutenant Governors

Goa, along with Daman and Diu was a Union Territory

Union Territory

A Union Territory is a sub-national administrative division of India, in the federal framework of governance. Unlike the states of India, which have their own elected governments, union territories are ruled directly by the federal government; the President of India appoints an Administrator or...

 in the Indian Union till 30 May 1987. As such it had a Lieutenant Governor till that time.

#	Name	Took Office	Left Office
1	Maj Gen K. P. Candeth (Military Governor)	19 December 1961	6 June 1962
2	T. Sivasankar	7 June 1962	1 September 1963
3	M. R. Sachdev	2 September 1963	8 December 1964
4	Hari Sharma	12 December 1964	23 February 1965
5	K. R. Damle	24 February 1965	17 April 1967
6	Nakul Sen	18 April 1967	15 November 1972
7	S. K. Banerji	16 November 1972	15 November 1977
8	P. S. Gill	16 November 1977	30 March 1981
9	Jagmohan Jagmohan Jag Mohan Malhotra is an Indian politician. He was born on 25 September 1927 in Hafizabad, Punjab in British India.*He is a former Governor of Jammu and Kashmir state in India.*He was in government service for many years....	31 March 1981	29 August 1982
10	I H Latif	30 August 1982	23 February 1983
11	K. T. Satarawala	24 February 1983	3 July 1984
12	I H Latif	4 July 1984	23 September 1984
13	Gopal Singh Gopal Singh Gopal Singh is a former Speaker of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly. He served as speaker in Janata Party rule from 25 September 1979 to 7 July 1980. Gopal Singh belongs to Rajput esrwhile Thakur family of Bhadrajun thikana. He currently looks after affairs of family heritage hotel He was MLA from...	24 September 1984	29 May 1987

Governors after 1987

Goa became a full fledged state of the Indian Union in 1987 and since then has had the following governors:

#	Name	Took Office	Left Office
1	Gopal Singh Gopal Singh Gopal Singh is a former Speaker of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly. He served as speaker in Janata Party rule from 25 September 1979 to 7 July 1980. Gopal Singh belongs to Rajput esrwhile Thakur family of Bhadrajun thikana. He currently looks after affairs of family heritage hotel He was MLA from...	30 May 1987	17 July 1989
2	Khurshed Alam Khan Khurshed Alam Khan Khurshed Alam Khan is an Indian politician and a senior leader of the Indian National Congress political party.He was Governor of Karnataka from 1991 to 1999 and governor of Goa from 1989 to 1991. Before that he was Union minister of External affairs in Government of India...	18 July 1989	17 March 1991
3	Bhanu Prakash Singh	18 March 1991	3 April 1994
4	B. Rachaiah	4 April 1994	3 August 1994
5	Gopala Ramanujam	4 August 1994	15 June 1995
6	Romesh Bhandari Romesh Bhandari Romesh Bhandari is a former Indian Foreign Secretary, former Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and former governor of Tripura, Goa and Uttar Pradesh.-Career:...	16 June 1995	18 July 1996
7	P.C. Alexander	19 July 1996	15 January 1998
8	T. R. Satish Chandran	16 January 1998	18 April 1998
9	J. F. R. Jacob	19 April 1998	26 November 1999
10	Mohammed Fazal Mohammed Fazal Mohammed Fazal was the Governor of Maharashtra from October 10, 2002 to December 5, 2004.He is known for his controversial suggestion to the then Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Sushilkumar Shinde to legalise prostitution....	26 November 1999	25 October 2002
11	Kidar Nath Sahani Kidar Nath Sahani Kidar Nath Sahani is a former governor of the Indian states of Sikkim and Goa . He is a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He hails from Delhi, though he was born in Rawalpindi, British India.-External links:*...	26 October 2002	2 July 2004
12	Mohammed Fazal Mohammed Fazal Mohammed Fazal was the Governor of Maharashtra from October 10, 2002 to December 5, 2004.He is known for his controversial suggestion to the then Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Sushilkumar Shinde to legalise prostitution....	3 July 2004	16 July 2004
13	S. C. Jamir	17 July 2004	21 July 2008
14	Shivinder Singh Sidhu Shivinder Singh Sidhu Shivinder Singh Sidhu is an Indian political figure, currently serving as Governor of Goa.He was earlier an IAS officer of 1952 batch belonging to the Uttar Pradesh cadre. While in the state, he served as the District Magistrate of Kanpur and subsequently as Commissioner of Agra Division...	22 July 2008	26 August 2011
15	Kateekal Sankaranarayanan	27 August 2011	Present

External links

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