Chief Guest
The Present Governor - Punjab
Sh. Gulab Chand Kataria
Governor of Punjab & Administrator
U.T., Chandigarh
Shri Gulab Chand Kataria is the 37th Governor of Punjab. Hon’ble Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana
High
Court, Mr. Sheel Nagu administered the oath of office to the new Governor on July 31, 2024.
Shri
Gulab
Chand Kataria was the 31st Governor of Assam for the period from 22.02.2023 to 30.07.2024. Shri
Gulab
Chand Kataria hails from Udaipur, Rajasthan.
He was the former Home Minister of Rajasthan and the
leader
of the opposition in the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly prior to his appointment as the Governor of
Assam.
Some of the notable achievements credited to him are he was the Home Minister in the
Government
of Rajasthan from 31st May 2004 to 8th December 2008 and again from 2015 to 2018. He was a senior
leader
of the BJP from Rajasthan and was also a member of the central working committee of the party. He
hails
from Udaipur and represented it in the 9th Lok Sabha, from 1989-1991. He was also the Leader of the
Opposition in the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from 24th August 2002 to December 2003, again from
21st
February 2013 to 10th December 2013, and from 17th January 2019 to 2023 till his appointment as the
Governor of Assam.
Shri Gulab Chand Kataria served as the Education Minister of the State from 1993 to 1998. He also
served as Minister, Public Works Department from 8th December 2003 to 30th May 2004. He was the
Minister, Panchayati Raj and Rural Development, Disaster Management and Relief Department from 2013
to 2015.
Shri Kataria was born to Late Hukmi Chand Kataria and Late Lahari Bai on 13th October 1944.
He pursued his Masters in Geography from Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur. He also studied Law
from Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur. He is married to Smt. Anita Kataria and has five
daughters. He also received the Excellent Teacher Award by Jiwanmal Nahata Memorial Trust, New Delhi
on 5th September 2006.
