Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India

The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India is an authority, established by the Constitution
of India underChapter V, who audits all receipts and expenditure of the Government of India and
the state governments, including those of bodies and authorities substantially financed by the
government.

List of Comptroller and Auditors General of India

No.

CAG

Year

Year tenure ended

V. Narahari Rao

1948

1954

A. K. Chanda

1954

1960

A. K. Roy

1960

1966

S. Ranganathan

1966

1972

A. Bakshi

1972

1978

Gian Prakash

1978

1984

T. N. Chaturvedi

1984

1990

C. G. Somiah

1990

1996

V. K. Shunglu

1996

2002

10 VN Kaul

2002

2008

11 Vinod Rai

2008

2013

12 Shashi Kant Sharma 2013

Incumbent (6 years
tenure or 65 years of
age, whichever is
earlier]

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List of Chief Justices of India

Since the birth of the Republic of India on 26 January 1950, 42 people have served as the Chief
Justice of India (CJI).[1]While H. J. Kania is the inaugural CJI, the current incumbent is H. L.
Dattu who was appointed as Chief Justice of India on 28.09.2014. Justice Y. V. Chandrachud is the
longest serving Chief Justice (February 1978 - July 1985).

List of Chief Justices

Number

Name

Period of office

Length of
term
(days)

Bar

H. J. Kania

26 January
1950

6 November
1951

649

Bombay High
Court

M. Patanjali Sastri

7 November
1951

3 January
1954

788

Madras High
Court

Mehr Chand Mahajan

4 January
1954

22
December
1954

352

East Punjab
High Court

Bijan Kumar
Mukherjea

23
December
1954

31 January
1956

404

Calcutta High
Court

Sudhi Ranjan Das

1 February
1956

30
September
1959

1337

Calcutta High
Court

Bhuvaneshwar Prasad
Sinha

1 October
1959

31 January
1964

1583

Patna High
Court

P. B. Gajendragadkar

1 February
1964

15 March
1966

773

Bombay High
Court

Amal Kumar Sarkar

16 March
1966

29 June
1966

105

Calcutta High
Court

Koka Subba Rao

30 June
1966

11 April
1967

285

Madras High
Court

10

Kailas Nath Wanchoo

12 April
1967

24 February
1968

318

Allahabad
High Court

11

Mohammad
Hidayatullah[2]

25 February
1968

16
December
1970

1025

Bombay High
Court

12

Jayantilal Chhotalal
Shah

17
December
1970

21 January
1971

35

Bombay High
Court

13

Sarv Mittra Sikri

22 Jan 1971

25 April

824

Lahore High

Appointed by

Rajendra Prasad

Sarvepalli
Radhakrishnan

Zakir Hussain

Varahagiri
Venkata Giri

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Number

Name

Period of office

Length of
term
(days)

1973

Bar

Appointed by

Court

14

Ajit Nath Ray

26 April
1973

27 January
1977

1372

Calcutta High
Court

15

Mirza Hameedullah
Beg

28 January
1977

21 February
1978

389

Allahabad
High Court

Fakhruddin Ali
Ahmed

16

Yeshwant Vishnu
Chandrachud

22 February
11 July 1985
1978

2696

Bombay High
Court

Neelam Sanjiva
Reddy

17

Prafullachandra
Natwarlal Bhagwati

12 July 1985

20
December
1986

526

Gujarat High
Court

18

Raghunandan Swarup
Pathak

21
December
1986

18 June
1989

940

Allahabad
High Court

19

Engalaguppe
Seetharamiah
Venkataramiah

19 June
1989

17
December
1989

181

Karnataka
High Court

20

Sabyasachi Mukharji

18
December
1989

25
September
1990

281

Calcutta High
Court

21

Ranganath Misra

26
September
1990

24
November
1991

424

Orissa High
Court

22

Kamal Narain Singh

25
November
1991

12
December
1991

17

Allahabad
High Court

23

Madhukar Hiralal
Kania

13
December
1991

17
November
1992

340

Bombay High
Court

24

Lalit Mohan Sharma

18
November
1992

11 February
1993

85

Patna High
Court

25

Manepalli Narayana
Rao Venkatachaliah

12 February
1993

24 October
1994

619

Karnataka
High Court

26

Aziz Mushabber
Ahmadi

25 October
1994

24 March
1997

881

Gujarat High
Court

27

Jagdish Sharan Verma

25 March
1997

17 January
1998

298

Madhya
Pradesh High
Court

28

Madan Mohan
Punchhi

18 January
1998

9 October
1998

264

Punjab and
Haryana High

Giani Zail Singh

Ramaswamy
Venkataraman

Shankar Dayal
Sharma

Kocheril Raman
Narayanan

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Number

Name

Period of office

Length of
term
(days)

Bar

Appointed by

Court
11 January
2001

824

Jammu and
Kashmir High
Court

29

Adarsh Sein Anand

10 October
1998

30

Sam Piroj Bharucha

11 January
2001

6 May 2002

480

Bombay High
Court

31

Bhupinder Nath
Kirpal

6 May 2002

8 November
2002

186

Delhi High
Court

32

Gopal Ballav
Pattanaik

8 November
2002

19
December
2002

41

Orissa High
Court

33

V. N. Khare

19 Dec 2002 2 May 2004

500

Allahabad
High Court

34

S. Rajendra Babu

2 May 2004 1 June 2004

30

Karnataka
High Court

35

Ramesh Chandra
Lahoti

1 June 2004

1 November
2005

518

Madhya
Pradesh High
Court

36

Yogesh Kumar
Sabharwal

1 November
2005

13 January
2007

438

Delhi High
Court

37

K. G. Balakrishnan

13 January
11 May 2010
2007

1214

Kerala High
Court

38

S. H. Kapadia

12 May 2010 28 Sep 2012

870

Bombay High
Court

39

Altamas Kabir

29
September
2012

18 July 2013

292

Calcutta High
Court

40

P. Sathasivam

19 July 2013

26 April
2014

281

Madras High
Court

153

41

Rajendra Mal Lodha

27 April
2014

27
September
2014

42

H. L. Dattu

28
September
2014

Incumbent

Rajasthan High
Court

A. P. J. Abdul
Kalam

Pratibha Patil

Pranab
Mukherjee

Karnataka
High Court

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Chief Election Commissioner of India

The Chief Election Commissioner heads the Election Commission of India, a body constitutionally
empowered to conduct free and fair elections to the national and state legislatures. Chief Election
Commissioner of India is usually a member of the Indian Civil Service and mostly from the Indian
Administrative Servic

Chief Election Commissioners[edit]

The following have held the post of the Chief Election Commissioner of India.
List of Chief Election Commissioners

Name

Sukumar Sen

Took Office

21 March 1950

Left Office

19 December 1958

Kalyan Sundaram 20 December 1958 30 September 1967

S. P. Sen Verma

1 October 1967

30 September 1972

Nagendra Singh

1 October 1972

6 February 1973

T. Swaminathan

7 February 1973

17 June 1977

S. L. Shakdhar

18 June 1977

17 June 1982

R. K. Trivedi

18 June 1982

31 December 1985

R. V. S. Peri Sastri

1 January 1986

25 November 1990

V. S. Ramadevi

26 November 1990 11 December 1990

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List of Chief Election Commissioners

Name

Took Office

Left Office

10

T. N. Seshan

11

M. S. Gill

12 December 1996

13 June 2001

12

J. M. Lyngdoh

14 June 2001

7 February 2004

8 February 2004

15 May 2005

13 T. S. Krishnamurthy

12 December 1990 11 December 1996

14

B. B. Tandon

16 May 2005

29 June 2006

15

N. Gopalaswami

30 June 2006

20 April 2009

16

Navin Chawla

21 April 2009

29 July 2010

17

S. Y. Quraishi

30 July 2010

10 June 2012

18

V. S. Sampath

10 June 2012

incumbent

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Attorneys General for India

The Attorney General for India is the Indian government's chief legal advisor, and its primary
lawyer in the Supreme Court of India. He is appointed by the President of India under Article
76(1) of the Constitution and holds office during the pleasure of the President. He must be a
person qualified to be appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court.

List of Attorneys General for India

The Attorneys General for India since independence are listed below: [12]
Attorney General

Term

Incumbent Prime Minister

M. C. Setalvad

28 January 1950 1 March 1963

Jawaharlal Nehru

C.K.Daphtary

2 March 1963 30 October 1968

Jawaharlal Nehru; Lal Bahadur

Shastri

Niren De

1 November 1968 31 March 1977

Indira Gandhi

S.V. Gupte

1 April 1977 8 August 1979

Morarji Desai

L.N. Sinha

9 August 1979 8 August 1983

Indira Gandhi

K. Parasaran

9 August 1983 8 December 1989

Indira Gandhi; Rajiv Gandhi

Soli Sorabjee

9 December 1989 2 December

1990

V. P. Singh; Chandra Shekhar

G. Ramaswamy

3 December 1990 23 November

1992

Chandra Shekhar; P. V. Narasimha

Rao

Milon K. Banerji

21 November 1992 8 July 1996

P. V. Narasimha Rao

Ashok Desai

9 July 1996 6 April 1998

H. D. Devegowda; Inder Kumar

Gujral

Soli Sorabjee

7 April 1998 4 June 2004

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Milon K. Banerji

5 June 2004 7 June 2009

Manmohan Singh

Goolam Essaji
Vahanvati

8 June 2009 11 June 2014

Manmohan Singh

Mukul Rohatgi

12 June 2014 11 June 2017

(Incumbent)

Narendra Damodardas Modi

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Governors of states of India

Andhra Pradesh: E. S. L. Narasimhan

Arunachal Pradesh: Nirbhay Sharma
Assam: Janaki Ballabh Patnaik
Bihar: D. Y. Patil
Chhattisgarh: Balram Das Tandon
Goa: Mridula Sinha
Gujarat: Om Prakash Kohli
Haryana: Kaptan Singh Solanki
Himachal Pradesh: Urmila Singh
Jammu and Kashmir:Narinder Nath Vohra
Jharkhand: Syed Ahmed
Karnataka: Vajubhai Vala
Kerala: P. Sathasivam
Madhya Pradesh: Ram Naresh Yadav
Maharashtra: C. Vidyasagar Rao
Manipur: Krishan Kant Paul (additional
charge)
Meghalaya: Krishan Kant Paul
Mizoram: Krishan Kant Paul (additional
charge)
Nagaland: Padmanabha Acharya
Odisha: S. C. Jamir
Punjab: Shivraj Patil
Rajasthan: Kalyan Singh
Sikkim: Shriniwas Dadasaheb Patil
Tamil Nadu: Konijeti Rosaiah

TelennganaESL.Narashimman

(additional charge)

Tripura: Padmanabha Acharya(additional charge)

Uttar Pradesh: Ram Naik

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Uttarakhand: Aziz Qureshi

West Bengal: Keshari Nath Tripathi

Andaman and Nicobar: A. K. Singh

Chandigarh: Shivraj Patil

Dadra and Nagar Haveli:Ashish Kundra

Daman and Diu: Ashish Kundra

Delhi: Najeeb Jung

Lakshadweep: H. Rajesh Prasad

Puducherry: A. K. Singh(additional charge)

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