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| 2 | List of governors of Manipur - Governors of Manipur |  |  |  |
| 3 | # | Name | Took Office | Left Office |
| 4 | 1 | B. K. Nehru | 21 January 1972 | 20 September 1973 |
| 5 | 2 | L.P. Singh | 21 September 1973 | 11 August 1981 |
| 6 | 3 | S. M. H. Burney | 18 August 1981 | 11 June 1984 |
| 7 | 4 | K. V. Krishna Rao | 2 June 1984 | 7 July 1989 |
| 8 | 5 | Chintamani Panigrahi | 10 July 1989 | 19 March 1993 |
| 9 | 6 | K. V. Raghunatha Reddy | 20 March 1993 | 30 August 1993 |
| 10 | 7 | V.K. Nayar | 31 August 1993 | 22 December 1994 |
| 11 | 8 | O.N. Shrivastava | 23 December 1994 | 11 February 1999 |
| 12 | 9 | Ved Marwah | 2 December 1999 | 12 June 2003 |
| 13 | 10 | Arvind Dave | 13 June 2003 | 5 August 2004 |
| 14 | 11 | Shivinder Singh Sidhu | 6 August 2004 | 22 July 2008 |
| 15 | 12 | Gurbachan Jagat | 23 July 2008 | 22 July 2013 |
| 16 | 13 | Ashwani Kumar | 23 July 2013 | 31 December 2013 |
| 17 | 14 | Vinod Duggal | 31 December 2013 | 28 August 2014 |
| 18 | 15 | K. K. Paul (Addl Charge) | 16 September 2014 | 15 May 2015 |
| 19 | 16 | Syed Ahmed | 16 May 2015 | 27 September 2015 |
| 20 | 17 | V. Shanmuganathan (Addl. charge) | 30 September 2015 | 17 August 2016 |
| 21 | 18 | Najma A. Heptulla | 21 August 2016 | Incumbent |

Question: Who was the 17th Governor of Manipur? Since when?
Answer: On 30 September 2015, V. Shanmuganathan was the 17th Governor of Manipur after Syed Ahmed.