Heads of Important Offices in the Country

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Heads of Important Offices in Country: India is a “Sovereign, Socialist, Secular, Democratic Republic” with a parliamentary system of government. This static GK article provides you information about the persons holding the highest offices as well as respectable positions at the Executive, Judiciary, and Legislature levels in the country.

Heads Of Important Constitutional Offices

Office	Name
President	Draupadi Murmu (15th)
Vice President	Jagdeep Dhankhar (14th)
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Chief Justice	Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud
Speaker of the Lok Sabha	Om Birla
Chief Election Commissioner	Arun Goel
Comptroller and Auditor General	Girish Chandra Murmu
Controller General of Accounts (CGA)	Sonali Singh
Chairperson of the Union Public Service Commission	Manoj Soni

Heads of Ministries/Cabinet Ministers

Office	Name
Home Affairs Minister	Amit Shah
Cooperation Minister	Amit Shah
Road Transport and Highways Minister	Nitin Gadkari
Finance Minister Corporate Affairs Minister	Nirmala Sitharaman
Defence Minister	Rajnath Singh
External Affairs Minister	Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW) Minister Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister	Mansukh Mandaviya
Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister	Narendra Singh Tomar
Education Minister Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Minister	Dharmendra Pradhan
Minister of Parliamentary Affairs	Pralhad Joshi
Minister of Coal; and Minister of Mines	Pralhad Joshi
Railways Minister	Ashwini Vaishnaw
Law and Justice Minister	Kiren Rijiju
Information and Broadcasting Minister	Anurag Singh Thakur
Tribal Affairs Minister	Arjun Munda
MSME Minister	Narayan Rane
Minister of Minority Affairs Ministry of Women and Child Development	Smriti Irani
Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways Minister of AYUSH	Sarbananda Sonowal
Minister of Commerce and Industry Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Minister of Textiles	Piyush Goyal

Heads of States/Chief Ministers of India

State	Chief Minister
Andhra Pradesh	Shri YS Jagan Mohan Reddy
Arunachal Pradesh	Shri Pema Khandu
Assam	Shri Himanta Biswa Sarma
Bihar	Shri Nitish Kumar
Chhattisgarh	Shri Bhupesh Baghel
Delhi (NCT)	Shri Arvind Kejriwal
Goa	Shri Pramod Sawant
Gujarat	Shri Bhupendra Patel
Haryana	Shri Manohar Lal
Himachal Pradesh	Shri Jairam Thakur
Jharkhand	Shri Hemant Soren
Karnataka	Sri Basavaraj Bommai
Kerala	Shri Pinarayi Vijayan
Madhya Pradesh	Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan
Maharashtra	Shri Eknath Shinde
Manipur	Shri N. Biren Singh
Meghalaya	Shri Conrad Kongkal Sangma
Mizoram	Shri Pu Zoramthanga
Nagaland	Shri Neiphiu Rio
Odisha	Shri Naveen Patnaik
Puducherry (UT)	Shri N. Rangaswamy
Punjab	Shri Bhagwant Singh Mann
Rajasthan	Shri Ashok Gehlot
Sikkim	Shri PS Golay
Tamil Nadu	Shri M. K. Stalin
Telangana	Shri K Chandrasekhar Rao
Tripura	Dr. Manik Saha
Uttar Pradesh	Shri Yogi Aditya Nath
Uttarakhand	Shri Pushkar Singh Dhami
West Bengal	Km. Mamata Banerjee

Constitutional Heads of States/Governors

State	Governor
Andhra Pradesh	Shri Biswa Bhusan Harichandan
Arunachal Pradesh	Brig. (Dr.) B. D. Mishra (Retd.)
Assam	Prof. Jagdish Mukhi
Bihar	Shri Phagu Chauhan
Chhattisgarh	Sushri Anusuiya Uikey
Goa	Shri P.S. Sreedharan Pillai
Gujarat	Shri Acharya Dev Vrat
Haryana	Shri Bandaru Dattatraya
Himachal Pradesh	Shri Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar
Jharkhand	Shri Ramesh Bais
Karnataka	Shri Thaawarchand Gehlot
Kerala	Shri Arif Mohammed Khan
Madhya Pradesh	Shri Mangubhai Chhaganbhai Patel
Maharashtra	Shri Bhagat Singh Koshyari
Manipur	La. Ganesan
Meghalaya	Shri Satya Pal Malik
Mizoram	Dr. Hari Babu Kambhampati
Nagaland	Jagdish Mukhi (Acting)
Odisha	Prof. Ganeshi Lal
Punjab	Banwarilal Purohit
Rajasthan	Shri Kalraj Mishra
Sikkim	Shri Ganga Prasad
Tamil Nadu	R.N. Ravi
Telangana	Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan
Tripura	Shri Satyadeo Narayan Arya
Uttar Pradesh	Smt. Anandiben Patel
Uttarakhand	Lt. Gen. Gurmit Singh
West Bengal	La Ganesan

Lt. Governors & Administrators

Union Territory	Lt. Governor & Administrator
Andaman and Nicobar Island (UT)	Admiral D K Joshi (Lieutenant Governor)
Chandigarh (UT)	Shri Banwarilal Purohit (Administrator)
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (UT)	Shri Praful Patel (Administrator)
Delhi (NCT)	Shri Vinai Kumar Saxena (Lieutenant Governor)
Jammu and Kashmir (UT)	Shri Manoj Sinha (Lieutenant Governor)
Lakshadweep (UT)	Shri Praful Patel (Administrator)
Puducherry (UT)	Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan (Addl. Charge) (Lieutenant Governor)
Ladakh (UT)	Shri Radha Krishna Mathur (Lieutenant Governor)

Heads of Important Commissions/Aayog/Tribunal

Office	Name
Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog	Suman Bery
CEO of NITI Aayog	Parameswaran Iyer
Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission	Arun Kumar Mishra
Chairperson of the National Commission for Minorities	Sardar Iqbal Singh Lalpura
Chairperson of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes	Vijay Sampla
Chairperson of the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes	Harsh Chouhan
Chairperson of the National Commission for Backward Classes	Bhagwan Lal Sahni
Chairperson of the National Commission for Women	Rekha Sharma
Chairperson of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights	Priyank Kanungo
Chairperson of the Central Administrative Tribunal	Manjula Das
Chairperson of the National Green Tribunal (NGT)	Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel
Chairperson of the Central Vigilance Commission	Suresh N. Patel
Chairperson of the Central Information Commission	Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha
Chairperson of the University Grants Commission	M. Jagdesh Kumar

Heads Of Important Financial Bodies/Commission

Office	Name
Chairperson of the 15th Finance Commission of India	N. K. Singh
Governor, of the Reserve Bank of India	Shaktikanta Das
Chairperson of the Securities and Exchange Board of India	Madhabi Puri Buch
Chairperson of the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority	Debasish Panda
Chairperson of the 7th Pay Commission	Ashok Kumar Mathur
Chairperson of the Small Industries Development Bank	Sivasubramanian Ramann
Chairperson of the Company Law Board	Mahesh Kumar Mittal
Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of the National Housing Bank	Sarada Kumar Hota
Chairperson of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development	G R Chinthala
Chairperson of the National Stock Exchange	Girish Chandra Chaturvedi
Chairperson of the State Bank of India	Dinesh Kumar Khara
Chairperson of the Life Insurance Corporation	M. R. Kumar
Chairperson of the Central Board of Direct Taxes	Nitin Gupta
Chairperson of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs	M. Ajit Kumar
Chairperson of the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority	Supramita Bandhopadhaya
Chairperson of the Competition Commission of India	Ashok Kumar Gupta
Chairman of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI)	Ravi Mittal
Director of the Enforcement Directorate	Sanjay Kumar Mishra
Chairman of the National Financial Reporting Authority	Ajay Bhushan Pandey

Heads Of Defence And Security Organizations

Occupation	Name
National Security Advisor	Ajit Doval
Chief of Defence Staff	Anil Chauhan
Chief of the Air Staff	Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari
Chief of the Army Staff	Lieutenant General Manoj Pande
Chief of the Naval Staff	Admiral R. Hari Kumar
Director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB)	Tapan Kumar Deka
Secretary of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW)	Samant Goel
Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)	Subodh Kumar Jaiswal
Director-General of the Border Security Force (BSF)	Pankaj Kumar Singh
Director General (DG) of the Indian Coast Guard	V.S. Pathania
Director-General of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB)	S N Pradhan
Director-General of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)	Sujoy Lal Thaosen
Director-General of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)	Sheel Vardhan Singh
Director-General of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)	Anish Dayal Singh
Director-General of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB)	S L Thaosen
Director-General of the National Security Guard (NSG)	Shri M.A Ganapathy
Director-General of the National Investigation Agency (NIA)	Dinkar Gupta
Director-General of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF)	Atul Karwal

RBI Related Portfolios

Governor of the RBI	Shaktikanta Das
Deputy Governors of the RBI	T Rabi Sankar, Mahesh Kumar Jain, Michael Patra and M. Rajeshwar Rao
Director of Central Board of RBI	Sanjay Malhotra
MPC Members	Shaktikanta Das, Michael Debabrata Patra, Mridul K. Saggar, Shashanka Bhide, Ashima Goyal, Jayanth R. Varma

Heads of Important Offices in the Country FAQs

Q. Who is the current Chief of Defence Staff(CDS) of India?

Ans. General Anil Chauhan is a four-star general of the Indian Army, who is the current and 2nd Chief of Defence Staff.

Q. Who is the current Chief Election Commissioner of India?

Ans. Shri Arun Goel is recently appointed as new Chief Election Commissioner of India.’

Q. Who is the current LG of Delhi?

Ans. Shri Vinai Kumar Saxena (Lieutenant Governor).

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