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Raghuram Rajan
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Urjit Patel
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Viral Acharya
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Arundhati Bhattacharya
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Detailed explanation-1: -Shri Shaktikanta Das, IAS Retd., former Secretary, Department of Revenue and Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India assumed charge as the 25th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India effective December 12, 2018.
Detailed explanation-2: -Shaktikanta Das is the present RBI Governor, appointed for a period of three years.
Detailed explanation-3: -The current governor of RBI (2021) is Shaktikanta Das.
Detailed explanation-4: -RBI is headquartered in Mumbai but initially, it was located in Kolkata and shifted to Mumbai in 1937. Government Of India appoints the head of RBI who is referred to as governor. So far RBI has had 25 governors. Osborne Smith was the first governor of RBI in 1935 and Shaktikanta Das is the current governor of RBI.
Detailed explanation-5: -Recently, Shaktikanta Das has been appointed the Governor of RBI for a period of three years.