List of Governors of Reserve Bank of India

This index gives you the list of Governors of Reserve Bank of India to improve your banknote collection of Republic of India. This list will be updated periodically.

Period	Finance Secretary
11-Aug-1943 – 30-Jun-1949	Chintamani Dwarkanath Deshmukh
1-Jul-1949 – 14-Jan-1957	Benegal Rama Rau
14-Jan-1957 – 28-Feb-1957	Keshav Govind Ambegaonkar
01-Mar-1957 – 28-Feb-1962	Hoorav Varada Raja Iyengar
1-Mar-1962 – 30-Jun-1967	Paresh Chandra Bhattacharya
1-Jul-1967 – 3-May-1970	Lakshmi Kant Jha
4-May-1970 – 15-Jun-1970	Bhasker Namdeo Adarkar
16-Jun-1970 – 19-May-1975	Sarukkai Jagannath
19-May-1975 – 19-Aug-1975	Nirmal Chandra Sengupta
20-Aug-1975 – 2-May-1977	Khatri Ram Puri
3-May-1977 – 30-Nov-1977	Maidavolu Narshimham
1-Dec-1977 – 15-Sep-1982	Indraprasad Gordhan Patel
16-Sep-1982 – 14-Jan-1985	Manmohan Singh
15-Jan-1985 – 4-Feb-1985	Amitav Ghosh
4-Feb-1985 – 22-Dec-1990	Ram Narayan Malhotra
22-Dec-1990 – 21-Dec-1992	S. Venketramanan
22-Dec-1992 – 21-Nov-1997	Chakravarthi Rangarajan
22-Nov-1997 – 5-Sep-2003	Bimal Jalan
6-Sep-2003 – 5-Sep-2008	Yaga Venugopal Reddy
5-Sep-2008 – 4-Sep-2013	Duvvuri Subarao
4-Sep-2013 – 4-Sep-2016	Raghuram Govind Rajan
4-Sep-2016 – 10-Dec-2018	Urjit Ravindra Patel
11-Dec-2018 – Date	Shakti Kanta Das

All the banknotes issued are with the signatory of the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India except ₹1 currency issued with signatory of Finance Secretary of RBI.