List of governors of West Bengal

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The Governor of West Bengal is the nominal head of the Indian state of West Bengal and a representative of the President of India. The governor is appointed by the president for a term of five years. His official residence is the Raj Bhavan. C. V. Ananda Bose was appointed as the current governor of West Bengal on 23 November 2022.^[1]

History

In 1911 the

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 role of governor

In his ex officio capacity, the governor of West Bengal is Chancellor of the universities of West Bengal (at present^[

).

The governor is also the chairman or president of some organizations, such as

St. John Ambulance Brigade No. II (West Bengal) District, Bharat Scouts and Guides

and the Bengal Tuberculosis Association.

Governor of West Bengal’s Welfare Fund, has the governor as its chairman. Contributions from this fund are given to the needy people for meeting, to some extent the cost of their treatment. Besides the above, at his discretion, the governor, accepts the position of Chief

Patron/Patron or other posts in the honorary capacity, in various organizations that are rendering yeoman

service to the society in different fields.

1935–1947 – Governors of the Province of Bengal

Name	Portrait	Took office	Left office	Appointer
The Lord Brabourne		30 May 1937	23 February 1939	The Marquess of Linlithgow
Sir John Arthur Herbert		1 July 1939	1 December 1943
The Lord Casey		14 January 1944	19 February 1946	The Viscount Wavell
Sir Frederick John Burrows		19 February 1946	15 August 1947

List of governors

No.	Portrait	Name	Took office	Left office	Duration
1		Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari	15 August 1947	21 June 1948	311 days
2		Kailash Nath Katju	21 June 1948	1 November 1951	3 years, 133 days
3	–	Harendra Coomar Mookerjee	1 November 1951	8 August 1956	4 years, 281 days
–	–	Phani Bhusan Chakravartti (acting)	8 August 1956	3 November 1956	87 days
4	–	Padmaja Naidu	3 November 1956	1 June 1967	10 years, 210 days
5		Dharma Vira	1 June 1967	1 April 1969	1 year, 304 days
–	–	Deep Narayan Sinha (acting)	1 April 1969	19 September 1969	171 days
6	–	Shanti Swaroop Dhavan	19 September 1969	21 August 1971	1 year, 336 days
7		Anthony Lancelot Dias	21 August 1971	6 November 1979	8 years, 77 days
8	–	Tribhuvana Narayana Singh	6 November 1979	12 September 1981	1 year, 310 days
9	–	Bhairab Dutt Pande	12 September 1981	10 October 1983	2 years, 28 days
10	–	Anant Prasad Sharma	10 October 1983	16 August 1984	320 days
—	–	Satish Chandra (acting)	16 August 1984	1 October 1984	46 days
11	–	Uma Shankar Dikshit	1 October 1984	12 August 1986	1 year, 315 days
12		Saiyid Nurul Hasan	12 August 1986	20 March 1989	2 years, 220 days
13		T. V. Rajeswar	20 March 1989	7 February 1990	324 days
(12)		Saiyid Nurul Hasan	7 February 1990	12 July 1993	3 years, 155 days
–	–	B. Satyanarayan Reddy (additional charge)	13 July 1993	14 August 1993	32 days
14		K. V. Raghunatha Reddy	14 August 1993	27 April 1998	4 years, 256 days
15		Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai	27 April 1998	18 May 1999	1 year, 21 days
16		Shyamal Kumar Sen	18 May 1999	4 December 1999	200 days
17		Viren J. Shah	4 December 1999	14 December 2004	5 years, 10 days
18		Gopalkrishna Gandhi	14 December 2004	14 December 2009	5 years, 0 days
–		Devanand Konwar (additional charge)	14 December 2009	23 January 2010	40 days
19		M.K. Narayanan	24 January 2010	30 June 2014	4 years, 157 days
—		D. Y. Patil (additional charge)[2]	3 July 2014	17 July 2014	14 days
20		Keshari Nath Tripathi	24 July 2014	29 July 2019	5 years, 5 days
21		Jagdeep Dhankhar[3]	30 July 2019	17 July 2022	2 years, 352 days
—		La. Ganesan (additional charge)	18 July 2022	22 November 2022	127 days
22		C. V. Ananda Bose	23 November 2022	Incumbent	1 year, 138 days

See also

• West Bengal
• Governors and Lieutenant-Governors of states of India

References

1. ISSN 0971-751X
   . Retrieved 23 November 2022.
2. ^ "Dr D Y Patil appointed West Bengal's acting Governor". The Economic Times. 3 July 2014. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
3. ^ "Senior Advocate Jagdeep Dhankhar Made West Bengal Governor". www.livelaw.in. 20 July 2019. Retrieved 24 December 2019.

External links

• Raj Bhavan's (Governor's residence) official website
  • Constitutional role of Governor
  • Ex officio role of Governor
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