General Knowledge / List of UPSC chairman in India

UPSC (Union Public Service Commission  (UPSC) in India is a central recruiting agency which is responsible for appointments and examinations and group A & group B of Central services. It’s headquartered at Dholpur House, in New Delhi and functions through its own secretariat.

S.No Chairman From To
1 Sir Ross Barker October 1926 August 1932
2 Sir David Petrie August 1932 1936
3 Sir Eyre Gorden 1937 1942
4 Sir F. W. Robertson 1942 1947
5 H. K. Kripalani 1 April 1947 13 January 1949
6 R. N. Banerjee 14 January 1949 9 May 1955
7 N. Govindarajan 10 May 1955 9 December 1955
8 V. S. Hejmadi 10 December 1955 9 December 1961
9 B. N. Jha 11 December 1961 22 February 1967
10 K. R. Damle 18 April 1967 2 March 1971
11 R. C. S. Sarkar 11 May 1971 1 February 1973
12 Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai 5 February 1973 4 February 1979
13 M. L. Shahare 16 February 1979 16 February 1985
14 H. K. L. Capoor 18 February 1985 5 March 1990
15 J. P. Gupta 5 March 1990 2 June 1992
16 R. M. Bathew (Kharbuli) 23 September 1992 23 August 1996
17 S. J. S. Chhatwal 23 August 1996 30 September 1996
18 J. M. Qureshi 30 September 1996 11 December 1998
19 Surendra Nath 11 December 1998 25 June 2002
20 Purna Chandra Hota 25 June 2002 September 2003
21 Mata Prasad September 2003 January 2005
22 S. R. Hashim 4 January 2005 1 April 2006
23 Gurbachan Jagat 1 April 2006 30 June 2007
24 Subir Dutta 30 June 2007 16 August 2008
25 D. P. Agrawal 16 August 2008 August 2014
26 Rajni Razdan 16 August 2014 21 November 2014
27 Deepak Gupta 22 November 2014 20 September 2016
28 Alka Sirohi 21 September 2016 3 January 2017
29 David R. Syiemlieh 4 January 2017 21 January 2018
30 Vinay Mittal 22 January 2018 19 June 2018
31 Arvind Saxena(acting) 20 June 2018 28 November 2018
32 Arvind Saxena 28 November 2018 Incumbent


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