List of administrators of Lakshadweep

Administrator of Lakshadweep
Administrator of Lakshadweep
	Incumbent; Praful Khoda Patel; since 5 December 2020
Appointer	President of India
Term length	Five Years
Inaugural holder	U. R. Panicker
Formation	1 November 1956 (68 years ago)

The Administrator of Lakshadweep is the Head of the Union Territory of Lakshadweep. He is also the Chairman of Lakshadweep Development Corporation (a U.T. Administration public sector undertaking) and SPORTS (Society for Promotion of Recreational Tourism and Sports).

List

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S. No.	Name	Took Office	Left Office
1	U. R. Panicker	1 November 1956	7 November 1956
2	S. Mony	8 November 1956	21 September 1958
3	C. K. Balakrishna Nair	22 September 1958	5 December 1961
4	M. Ramunny	6 December 1961	8 April 1965
5	C. H. Naire	9 April 1965	31 October 1969
6	K. D. Menon	1 November 1969	30 April 1973
7	W. Shaiza	22 May 1973	21 June 1975
8	M. C. Verma	22 June 1975	14 February 1977
9	S. D. Lakhar	21 February 1977	30 July 1978
10	P. M. Nair	31 July 1978	15 June 1981
11	Pradip Mehra	15 June 1981	21 July 1982
12	Omesh Saigal	21 July 1982	9 July 1985
13	J. Sagar	9 July 1985	8 September 1987
14	Wajahat Habibullah	8 September 1987	31 January 1990
15	Pradip Singh	1 February 1990	1 May 1990
16	S. P. Aggarwal	2 May 1990	3 May 1992
17	Satish Chandra	4 May 1992	9 September 1994
18	G.S. Chima	9 September 1994	14 June 1996
19	Rajeev Talwar	1 August 1996	1 June 1999
20	R. K. Verma	1 June 1999	20 August 1999
21	Chaman Lal	21 August 1999	30 April 2001
(20)	R. K. Verma	30 April 2001	19 June 2001
22	K. S. Mehra	19 June 2001	20 June 2004
23	S. P. Singh	21 June 2004	21 November 2004
24	Parimal Rai	22 November 2004	11 August 2006
25	Rajendra Kumar	11 August 2006	21 December 2006
26	B. V. Selvaraj	22 December 2006	16 May 2009
27	Satya Gopal	27 May 2009	12 July 2009
28	J. K. Dadoo	13 July 2009	15 June 2011
29	Amar Nath	11 July 2011	2012
30	H. Rajesh Prasad	7 November 2012^[2]	22 October 2015
31	Vijay Kumar	25 October 2015	6 September 2016
32	Farooq Khan	6 September 2016	18 July 2019
33	Mihir Vardhan	19 July 2019	2 November 2019
34	Dineshwar Sharma	3 November 2019	4 December 2020
35	Praful Khoda Patel	5 December 2020	Incumbent

References

↑ "Shri Amar Nath is the 30th Administrator... Archived 2011-11-11 at the Wayback Machine" [pdf]. The Lakshadweep Times, p. 3. 12 July 2011. Director of Information and Public Relations, Lakshadweep Administration. Retrieved on 23 February 2013.
↑ Bio-data of the Hon'ble Administrator Archived 21 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Official Website of Union Territory of Lakshadweep. Retrieved on 23 February 2013.

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[1] "Shri Amar Nath is the 30th Administrator... Archived 2011-11-11 at the Wayback Machine" [pdf]. The Lakshadweep Times, p. 3. 12 July 2011. Director of Information and Public Relations, Lakshadweep Administration. Retrieved on 23 February 2013.

[2] Bio-data of the Hon'ble Administrator Archived 21 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Official Website of Union Territory of Lakshadweep. Retrieved on 23 February 2013.

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Administrator of Lakshadweep
Incumbent Praful Khoda Patel since 5 December 2020
Appointer	President of India
Term length	Five Years
Inaugural holder	U. R. Panicker
Formation	1 November 1956 (1956-11-01) (68 years ago)