List of governors of Nagaland
Governors of Nagaland

List of governors of Nagaland

Section Title: Governors of Nagaland
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#	Name	Took Office	Left Office

1	Vishnu Sahay, ICS (Retd.)	1 December 1963	16 April 1968

2	B.K. Nehru, ICS (Retd.)	17 April 1968	18 September 1973

3	L.P. Singh, ICS (Retd.)	19 September 1973	9 August 1981

4	S. M. H. Burney, IAS (Retd.)	10 August 1981	12 June 1984

5	Gen.(Retd.) K. V. Krishna Rao, PVSM.	13 June 1984	19 July 1989

6	Dr. Gopal Singh	20 July 1989	3 May 1990

7	Dr. M.M. Thomas	9 May 1990	12 April 1992

8	Loknath Mishra	13 April 1992	1 October 1993

9	Lt. Gen.(Retd.)V.K. Nayyar PVSM, SM	2 October 1993	4 August 1994

10	O.N. Shrivastava, IPS (Retd)	5 August 1994	11 November 1996

11	Om Prakash Sharma, IPS (Retd.)	12 November 1996	27 January 2002

12	Shyamal Datta, IPS (Retd.)	28 January 2002	2 February 2007

13	K. Wilson	3 February 2007	4 February 2007

14	K. Sankaranarayanan	4 February 2007	28 July 2009

15	Gurbachan Jagat, IPS (Retd.)	28 July 2009	14 Oct 2009

16	Nikhil Kumar, IPS (Retd.)	15 Oct 2009	20 March 2013

17	Ashwani Kumar	21 March 2013	27 June 2014

18	Krishan Kant Paul (Additional Charge)	2 July 2014	19 July 2014

19	Padmanabha Acharya	19 July 2014

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