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.

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