In the Republic of India, a lieutenant governor is the constitutional head of five of the eight union territories. The lieutenant governor is appointed by the President of India for a term of five years, and holds office at the President's pleasure. Since the union territories of Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir and Puducherry have a measure of self-government with an elected legislature and council of ministers, the role of the lieutenant governor there is mostly a ceremonial one, akin to that of a state's governor. In Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Ladakh however, the lieutenant governor holds more power, being both the head of state and head of government.

The other three union territories—Chandigarh; Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu; and Lakshadweep—are governed by an administrator. Unlike the lieutenant governors of other territories, they are usually drawn from the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) or Indian Police Service (IPS). Since 1985 the Governor of Punjab has also been the ex-officio Administrator of Chandigarh.

Praful Khoda Patel, till date, is the only administrator of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu who is not a civil servant (i.e. IAS or IPS), rather a politician. He was also given the additional charge of Lakshadweep after the death of Dineshwar Sharma.

List

The following lists contain the current lieutenant governors and administrators of the eight union territories of India.^[1]

Lieutenant governors

Union territory (past lieutenant governors)	Elected legislature	Name	Portrait	Took office (tenure length)	Appointed by	Ref
Andaman and Nicobar Islands (list)	N	Devendra Kumar Joshi		8 October 2017 (6 years, 278 days)	Ram Nath Kovind	[2]
Delhi (list)	Y (Legislative Assembly)	Vinai Kumar Saxena		26 May 2022 (2 years, 47 days)	Ram Nath Kovind	[3]
Jammu and Kashmir (list)	Y (Legislative Assembly)	Manoj Sinha		7 August 2020 (3 years, 340 days)	Ram Nath Kovind	[4]
Ladakh (list)	N	B. D. Mishra		12 February 2023 (1 year, 151 days)	Droupadi Murmu	[5]
Puducherry (list)	Y (Legislative Assembly)	C. P. Radhakrishnan (additional charge)		19 March 2024 (115 days)	Droupadi Murmu	[6]

Administrators

Union territory (list)	Portrait	Name	Assumed office (Time in office)	Appointed by	Ref.
Chandigarh (list)		Banwarilal Purohit	31 August 2021 (2 years, 316 days)	Ram Nath Kovind	[7]
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (list)		Praful Khoda Patel	26 January 2020 (4 years, 168 days)	Ram Nath Kovind	[8]
Lakshadweep (list)		Praful Khoda Patel (additional charge)	5 December 2020 (3 years, 220 days)	Ram Nath Kovind	[9]