| Sl.No. | Name | Took Office | Left Office |
| 1 | B. K. Nehru | 1/21/1972 | 9/20/1973 |
| 2 | L.P. Singh | 9/21/1973 | 8/11/1981 |
| 3 | S.M.H. Burney | 8/12/1981 | 6/11/1984 |
| 4 | K. V. Krishna Rao | 6/2/1984 | 7/7/1989 |
| 5 | Chintamani Panigrahi | 7/10/1989 | 3/19/1993 |
| 6 | K. V. Raghunatha Reddy | 3/20/1993 | 8/30/1993 |
| 7 | V.K. Nayar | 8/31/1993 | 12/22/1994 |
| 8 | O. N. Shrivastava | 12/23/1994 | 2/11/1999 |
| 9 | Ved Marwah | 12/2/1999 | 6/12/2003 |
| 10 | Arvind Dave | 6/13/2003 | 8/5/2004 |
| 11 | Shivinder Singh Sidhu | 8/6/2004 | 7/23/2008 |
| 12 | Gurbachan Jagat | 7/23/2008 | Present |
