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The Surveyor General of India is the Head of Department of
Survey of India , a department under the
Ministry of Science and Technology of the
Government of India . The Surveyor General is also the most senior member of the
Survey of India Service , an organised engineering service under the Union of India.
The current Surveyor General is Hitesh Kumar S Makwana.
Surveyors General
The East India Company appointed
James Rennell to survey the Bengal Presidency in 1767. Lord Clive appointed him as Surveyor General.
Colin Mackenzie was appointed Surveyor General of Madras Presidency in 1810, but these posts were abolished in 1815 and Mackenzie was made the first Surveyor General of India.
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A list of Surveyor Generals and their tenure:
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1815–1821:
Colin Mackenzie
1821–1823: John Hodgson
1823–1826:
Valentine Blacker
1826–1829: John Hodgson
1829–1830: Henry Walpole
1830–1843:
Sir George Everest
1843–1861:
Andrew Scott Waugh
1861–1878:
Henry Edward Landor Thuillier
1878–1883:
James Thomas Walker
1884–1887: George Charles Depree
1887–1895:
Henry Ravenshaw Thuillier
1895–1899: Charles Strahan
1899–1904:
St George Corbet Gore
1904–1911: Colonel
Francis Bacon Longe
1911–1919:
Sidney Gerald Burrard
1919–1924:
Charles Henry Dudley Ryder
1924–1928: Edward Aldborough Tandy
1928–1933: Robert Henry Thomas
1933–1937: Harold John Couchman
1937–1941: Sir Clinton Gresham Lewis
1941–1946:
Sir Edward Oliver Wheeler
1946–1951: George Frederick Heaney
1951–1956: Ian Henry Richard Wilson
1956–1961: Brig. Gambhir Singh
May 1961 – December 1961: (#) Col Rajendar Singh Kalha
January 1962 – April 1962: Eustace Randolf Wilson
May 1962 – June 1966: Brig Gambhir Singh
July 1966 – August 1969: Brig Jitindar Singh Paintal
September 1969 – June 1971: (#) Brig Jamshed A.F. Dalal
July 1971 – April 1972: Brig Jitindar Singh Paintal
May 1972 – March 1976: (#) Dr Hari Narain, Padam Shri
Apr 1976 – November 1981: Lt Gen Kishori Lal Khosla
December 1981 – January 1988: Lt Gen Girish Chandra Agarwal
February 1988 – December 1988: (#) Maj Gen D M Gupta
January 1989 – November 1990: Lt Gen Surinder Mohan Chadha
December 1990 – March 1991: (#) A K Sanyal
April 1991 – June 1992: Vinay Kant Nagar
July 1992 – December 1992: Lt Gen C B Jhaldiyal
January 1993 – April 1994: (#) Maj Gen D P Gupta
May 1994 – July 1994: (#) P R Dutta
August 1994 – September 1994: (#) B B Sinha
October 1994 – July 1996: (#) Maj Gen Surinder Prakash Mehta
August 1996 – March 1997: Lt Gen Surinder Prakash Mehta
April 1997 – March 2001: Lt Gen Ashok Kumar Ahuja
April 2001 – November 2001: Lt Gen Ashok Kumar Ahuja (on Extn)
December 2001 – February 2005: Dr Prithvish Nag (on Deputation)
March 2005 – June 2005: Vacant
July 2005 – March 2007: Maj Gen M Gopal Rao
April 2007 – December 2007: Maj Gen M Gopal Rao (on contract)
January 2008 – June 2008: (#) Maj Gen R S Tanwar
01 July 2008 – 13 July 2008: (#) Dr T Ramaswami, DST
14 July 2008 – October 2008: (#) Dr Prithvish Nag
November 2008 – July 2009: (#) Dr T Ramaswami, DST
August 2009 – September 2009: (#) Maj Gen R S Tanwar
October 2009 – November 2009: (#) Maj Gen Manoj Tayal
November 2009 – 24 August 2010: (#) Dr T Ramaswami, DST
25 August 2010 – 30 April 2015: Dr Swarna Subba Rao
01 May 2015 – 07 April 2016: (#) Rajendra Mani Tripathi
08 April 2016 – 30 June 2017: Dr Swarna Subba Rao
01 July 2017 – 30 September 2017: (#) Maj Gen VP Srivastava
01 October 2017 – 30 January 2018: (#) Maj Gen Girish Kumar
31 January 2018 – 31 December 2019: Lt Gen Girish Kumar, VSM
01 January 2020 – 14 January 2020: (#) Sh Naveen Tomar
15 January 2020 – 15 January 2021: (On Contract)
Lt. Gen. Girish Kumar (Retd), VSM
16 January 2021 – 12 January 2022 : Sh Naveen Tomar
13 January 2022 - 5 November 2023: Shri Sunil Kumar(IFS)
Indian Forest Service Joint Secretary, DST (F/N).
6 November 2023 - Present: Hitesh Kumar S Makwana
See also
References
Further reading
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