New Delhi: Former Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Girish Chandra Murmu has been appointed as the new Comptroller and Auditor General of India. Murmu, a native of Odisha’s Mayurbhanj District, was a 1985 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre, and has worked as principal secretary to Narendra Modi when he was the Chief Minister of Gujarat. He became the first Lieutenant Governor of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir in 2019.
While Murmu will replace Rajiv Mehrishi as the CAG, former Union Minister Manoj Sinha has been appointed as the lieutenant governor of Jammu and Kashmir.