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| Governor of Chhattisgarh | |
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| Style | His Excellency |
| Residence | Raj Bhavan;Raipur |
| Appointer | President of India |
| Term length | At the pleasure of the president |
| Inaugural holder | D. N. Sahay |
| Formation | 1 November 2000; 25 years ago (2000-11-01) |
Thegovernor of Chhattisgarh is the nominalhead of state of the Indian state ofChhattisgarh. The governor is appointed by thepresident of India. The official residence of the governor isRaj Bhavan.
The position of the governor of Chhattisgarh came into existence following the creation of the state in November 2000 as a result of thebifurcation of Madhya Pradesh. The first governor to be appointed wasDinesh Nandan Sahay who served in office between 2000 and 2003. The current governor isRemen Deka who has been in office since 31 July 2024.
The governor enjoys many different types of powers:
Apart from enjoying various constitutional powers, the governor of Chhattisgarh is theex-officio Chancellor of the state universities of Chhattisgarh. The universities includeAtal Bihari Vajpayee Vishwavidyalaya,Pt. Deendayal Upadhyay Memorial Health Sciences and Ayush University of Chhattisgarh,Bastar Vishwavidyalaya,Chhattisgarh Kamdhenu Vishwavidyalaya,Hemchand Yadav Vishwavidyalaya,Indira Kala Sangeet Vishwavidyalaya,Sarguja University, etc.
The inaugural governor of Chhattisgarh was retired Indian Police Service officer and former Bihar DGPDinesh Nandan Sahay who served in office since the state's creation in November 2000 until he swapped positions with then Governor of Tripura Lieutenant GeneralKrishna Mohan Seth (retired) in June 2003. Seth served in office until retiring in January 2007 and was succeeded by former Intelligence Bureau directorE. S. L. Narasimhan. Narasimhan served as the state's governor until being permanently transferred as Governor of Andhra Pradesh in January 2010, a position he was holding on additional basis since December 2009 following the resignation ofN. D. Tiwari. Following the transfer of Narasimhan, former Defence SecretaryShekhar Dutt was appointed as the governor and he remained in office until resigning in June 2014.
Following Dutt's resignation, Madhya Pradesh governorRam Naresh Yadav briefly acted as the state's governor. He was relieved of the additional duties following the appointment ofBalram Das Tandon the following month. Tandon remained the governor until his demise in office on 14 August 2018, thus becoming the first and only sitting governor of the state to die in office. He was succeeded by Madhya Pradesh governorAnandiben Patel on acting basis who served till July the next year and was succeeded byAnusuiya Uikey. Uikey served as the state's governor until February 2023 and was transferred as Governor of Manipur and was succeeded by Andhra Pradesh governorBiswabhusan Harichandan. Harichandan has since then being the governor of the state.
| # | Portrait | Name (born – died) | Home state | Tenure in office | Appointer (President) | ||
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| From | To | Time in office | |||||
| 1 |  | Dinesh Nandan Sahay IPS (Retd) (1936–2018) | Bihar | 1 November 2000 | 1 June 2003[§][α] | 2 years, 212 days | K. R. Narayanan |
| 2 | _K._M._Seth_at_Raj_Bhawan_in_Raipur%2c_during_his_one_day_visit_to_the_State_on_April_30%2c_2005_(cropped).jpg) | Lieutenant General Krishna Mohan Seth(Retd) PVSM AVSM (born 1939) | Uttar Pradesh | 2 June 2003 | 25 January 2007 | 3 years, 237 days | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
| 3 |  | E. S. L. Narasimhan IPS (Retd) (born 1945) | Tamil Nadu | 26 January 2007 | 23 January 2010[§][β] | 2 years, 362 days | |
| 4 |  | Shekhar Dutt SMIAS (Retd) (1945–2025) | Assam | 23 January 2010 | 19 June 2014[‡] | 4 years, 147 days | Pratibha Patil |
| – | .jpg) | Ram Naresh Yadav (1928–2016) Governor of Madhya Pradesh (Additional Charge) | Uttar Pradesh | 19 June 2014 | 14 July 2014 | 25 days | Pranab Mukherjee |
| 5 | .jpg) | Balram Das Tandon (1927–2018) | Punjab | 18 July 2014 | 14 August 2018[†] | 4 years, 27 days | |
| – | .jpg) | Anandiben Patel (born 1941) Governor of Madhya Pradesh (Additional Charge) | Gujarat | 15 August 2018 | 28 July 2019[§][γ] | 347 days | Ram Nath Kovind |
| 6 | .jpg) | Anusuiya Uikey (born 1957) | Madhya Pradesh | 29 July 2019 | 22 February 2023[§][δ] | 3 years, 208 days | |
| 7 | .jpg) | Biswabhusan Harichandan (born 1934) | Odisha | 23 February 2023[1] | 30 July 2024 | 1 year, 158 days | Droupadi Murmu |
| 8 | | Ramen Deka (born 1954) | Assam | 31 July 2024 | Incumbent | 1 year, 114 days | |
