20/06/2023
The Governor of the Reserve Bank of India is the CEO of the Central Bank of India.The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is the highest banking authority of India. Since its establishment in 1935, by the British colonial government, many have worked on the post of the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.
The Governor of the Reserve Bank of India is the Chief Executive Officer of the Central Bank of India and the Ex-officio Chairman of its Central Board of Directors. The Indian note issued by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) bears the signature of the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.
The first Governor of the Reserve Bank of India was Sir Osborne Smith, while C.D. Deshmukh was the first Indian Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.
While all denominations of Indian currency notes are signed by RBI Governor, as a convention the one rupee note continued to be signed by Finance Secretary. The One Rupee note is issued by the Ministry of Finance and it bears the signature of Finance Secretary.India stopped printing One Rupee notes after 1994, and again it resumed in 2015.
List of Governors:
1.Sir Osborne Smith: 01.04.1935-30.06.1937
2.Sir James Taylor: 01.07.1937-17.02.1943
3.Sir C D Deshmukh: 11.08.1943-30.06.1949
4.Sir Benegal Rama Rao: 01.07.1949-14.01.1957
5.K G Ambegaonkar: 14.01.1957-28.02.1957
6.H V R Ienger: 01.03.1957-28.02.1962
7.P C Bhattacharya: 01.03.1962-30.06.1967
8.L.K.Jha: 01.07.1967-03.05.1970
9.B N Adarkar: 04.05.1970-15.06.1970
10.S. Jagannathan: 16.06.1970-19.05.1975
11.N C Sen Gupta: 19.05.1975-19.08.1975
12.K.R. Puri: 20.081975-02.05.1977
13.M Narasimham: 02.05.1977-30.11.1977
14.Dr.I.G.Patel: 01.12.1977-15.09.1982
15.Dr.Manmohan Singh:16.09.1982-14.01.1985
16.Amitav Ghosh: 15.01.1985-04.02.1985
17.R N Malhotra: 04.02.1985-22.12.1990
18.S Venkitaramanan: 22.12.1990-21.12.1992
19.Dr.C.Rangarajan:22.12.1992-22.11.1997
20.Dr.Bimal Jalan: 22.11.1997-06.09.2003
21.Dr.Y V Reddy:06.09.2003-05.09.2008
22.Dr.D.Subbarao: 05.09.2008-04.09.2013
23.Dr.Raghuram Rajan: 04.09.2013-04.09.2016
24.Dr.Urijit R.Patel: 04.09.2016-11.12.2018
25.Shaktikanta Das:12.12.2018-Present
List of Finance Secretaries:
1.K.R.K.Menon: 1949-1950
2.K.G.Ambegaonkar: 1950-1955
3.H.M.Patel: 1955-1958
4.A.K.Roy: 1958-1960
5.S.Bhoothalingam: 1960-1964
6.L.K.Jha: 1964-1966
7.S.Jagannthan: 1967-1968
8.I.G.Patel: 1968-1972
9.M.G.Kaul: 1973-1976
10.Manmohan Singh: 1976-1980
11.R.N.Malhotra: 1980-1981
12.M.Narasimham: 1981-1983
13.Pratap Kishan Kaul: 1983-1985
14.S.Venkitaramanan: 1985-1989
15.Gopi K.Arora: 1989-1990
16.Bimal Jalan: 1990-1991
17.S.P.Shukla: 1991-1991
18.Montek Singh Ahluwalia: 1991-1994
**Rajiv Mehrishi: 2014-2015
**Ratan P Watal: 2016-2017
**Shaktikanta Das: 2015-2017
**Subhash Chandra Garg: 2019-2019