Check the comprehensive list of Indian states, capitals, Chief Ministers, Governors and Lt. Governors & Administrators of India in 2024. Also, get to know more interesting facts about the list here.
The capitals, Chief Ministers, Governors, Lt. Governors and Administrators of various states and union territories of India forms a crucial part, particularly in the General Awareness/Static General Knowledge section in various government competitive exams such as Bank, Insurance, SSC, Railways, PSC and other recruitment exams. This information is comprehensively covered here in this blog post under the Static GK part, in particular focusing on the names of the states and union territories of India, their capital cities, Chief Ministers, Governors, Lt. Governors and Administrators. We’ve also included some interesting facts regarding capitals, chief ministers and governors here for further study that will be used for your exam revision.
India, situated on the expansive Asian peninsula, boasts a wealth of history and culture. To facilitate governance, India is divided into states and union territories. Every state and union territory in India has its own capital city. In total, India is a union of 28 States & 8 Union Territories (as of 1 Jan 2024).
Each state in India has a Chief Minister who wields executive authority over that particular state. The responsibilities of the Chief Minister of a state are outlined under Article 167 of the Indian Constitution. Currently, there are 36 Chief Ministers presiding over 28 states and 2 union territories in India.
Every state in India must have a governor as mentioned in Article 153 of the Indian Constitution. The Governor of a state officially wields the executive power. Governors are appointed by the President of India.
To be eligible to be appointed as a Governor of state, a person should be a recognised Indian citizen with age 35 years or more. The person should not be a Member of the Parliament or Legislature. He/She should not have any office or business. The primary role of the Governor of a state is to protect, preserve and defend rightfully and to maintain the dignity of the Indian Constitution and its law at all costs.
A union territory in India is assigned a Lieutenant Governor or an Administrator, similar to that of a Governor of a state.
India currently has 8 Union Territories as of 1 January 2024. The Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu emerged as the newest union territory of India on 26 January 2020 with the merger of the union territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli. The Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (Merger of Union Territories) Bill 2019 was passed by both the upper and lower house of the Parliament during the Winter Session in 2019.
Dadra and Nagar Haveli became a part of India in 1961 while Daman and Diu was part of the union territory of Goa from from 1961 to 1987. Daman and Diu became a separate union territory in 1987 when Goa was declared a separate state.
With 3,702 sq. km. of area, Goa remains the smallest state in India (in terms of area). It was formed as a separate state in 1987. It also leads as the state with the highest per capita income in India in 2023. Goa also has the unique distinction of housing Asia’s only naval museum, located in Bogmalo, with thirteen decommissioned aircraft.
Sikkim, with a total population of 6,10,577, emerges as the smallest state in India (in terms of population). Sikkim has six districts namely Gangtok, Mangan, Namchi, Gyalshing, Pakyong and Soreng. It became part of India in 1975 and is the home to the Kanchenjunga Peak, which is the highest peak in India. The state declared itself as a fully organic state in 2016. Sikkim is often referred to as the ‘Land of Monasteries’ since it houses more than 200 monasteries within its realm.
At present (as of 1 Jan 2024), Mamta Banerjee remains the sole female Chief Minister of a state in India. She has been serving as the Chief Minister of the state of West Bengal since 2011.
Sikkim’s former Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling holds the record of helming a state for the longest time — 24 years and 166 days between the period December 1994 and May 2019. Odisha’s Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik became the second longest-serving Chief Minister of a state in India with a tenure of 23 years and 139 days in 2023 surpassing the record of former West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu.
State | Capital | Chief Minister | Governor |
Andhra Pradesh | Amaravati | Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy | Justice (Retd.) S. Abdul Nazeer |
Arunachal Pradesh | Itanagar | Pema Khandu | Lt. Gen. Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik (Retd.) |
Assam | Dispur | Himanta Biswa Sarma | Gulab Chand Kataria |
Bihar | Patna | Nitish Kumar | Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar |
Chhattisgarh | Raipur | Vishnu Deo Sai | Biswa Bhusan Harichandan |
Goa | Panaji | Pramod Sawant | P. S. Sreedharan Pillai |
Gujarat | Gandhinagar | Bhupendra Patel | Acharya Dev Vrat |
Haryana | Chandigarh | Nayab Singh Saini | Bandaru Dattatraya |
Himachal Pradesh | Shimla | Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu | Shiv Pratap Shukla |
Jharkhand | Ranchi | Champai Soren | C. P. Radhakrishnan |
Karnataka | Bengaluru | Siddaramaiah | Thaawarchand Gehlot |
Kerala | Thiruvananthapuram | Pinarayi Vijayan | Arif Mohammed Khan |
Madhya Pradesh | Bhopal | Mohan Yadav | Mangubhai Chhaganbhai Patel |
Maharashtra | Mumbai | Eknath Shinde | Ramesh Bais |
Manipur | Imphal | N. Biren Singh | Sushri Anusuiya Uikye |
Meghalaya | Shillong | Conrad Kongkal Sangma | Phagu Chauhan |
Mizoram | Aizwal | P. U. Lalduhoma | Dr. Kambhampati Haribabu |
Nagaland | Kohima | Neiphiu Rio | La. Ganesan |
Odisha | Bhubaneshwar | Naveen Patnaik | Raghubar Das |
Punjab | Chandigarh | Bhagwant Singh Mann | Banwarilal Purohit |
Rajasthan | Jaipur | Bhajan Lal Sharma | Kalraj Mishra |
Sikkim | Gangtok | P. S. Golay | Lakshman Prasad Acharya |
Tamil Nadu | Chennai | M. K. Stalin | R. N. Ravi |
Telangana | Hyderabad | A. Revanth Reddy | Tamilisai Soundararajan |
Tripura | Agartala | Dr. Manik Saha | Indra Sena Reddy Nallu |
Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow | Yogi Aditya Nath | Anandiben Patel |
Uttarakhand | Dehradun | Pushkar Singh Dhami | Lt. Gen. Gurmit Singh (Retd.) |
West Bengal | Kolkata | Mamata Banerjee | Dr. C. V. Ananda Bose |
Union Territory | Capital | Chief Minister | Lt. Governor & Administrator |
Delhi (NCT) | Delhi | Aravind Kejriwal | Vinai Kumar Saxena |
Puducherry | Puducherry | N. Rangaswamy | CP Radhakrishnan (Addl. Charge) |
Andaman & Nicobar Islands | Port Blair | — | Admiral D. K. Joshi |
Chandigarh | Chandigarh | — | Banwarilal Purohit (Administrator) |
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu | Daman | — | Praful Patel (Administrator) |
Jammu & Kashmir | Jammu (Winter), Srinagar (Summer) | — | Manoj Sinha |
Lakshadweep | Kavaratti | — | Praful Patel (Administrator) |
Ladakh | Leh | — | Brig. (Dr.) B. D. Mishra (Retd.) (Lieutenant Governor) |
State | Chief Ministers |
Tripura | Manik Saha |
Meghalaya | Conrad Sagma |
Nagaland | Neiphiu Rio |
Karnataka | Siddaramaiah |
Mizoram | Lalduhoma |
Chhattisgarh | Vishnu Deo Sai |
Madhya Pradesh | Mohan Yadav |
Rajasthan | Bhajan Lal Sharma |
Telangana | Revanth Reddy |
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