Girish Chandra Murmu News

GC Murmu was appointed the CAG of India on Thursday, a day after he stepped down as the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, replacing Rajiv Mehrishi, who is scheduled to complete his term this week

Murmu was appointed as the first Lt Governor of J&K when the union territory was carved out of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir

Girish Chandra Murmu had stepped down as the Lieutenant Governor of J&K on Wednesday

Girish Chandra Murmu,60, belongs to the 1985-batch Indian Administrative Service and is from the Gujarat cadre. He was the principal secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi when Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat.

Murmu was an officer of the Indian Administrative Service and has closely with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his earlier tenure as chief minister of GujaratApart from these appointments, Kovind has also cleared the appointment of P. S. Sreedharan Pillai as the Governor of Mizoram

The incumbent governor of the state, Satya Pal Malik, has been moved to GoaThe two Union Territories will come into existence on 31 October

Capital expenditure is ₹8.5 trillion including the government’s capital expenditure of ₹3.36 trillion. So, the government’s expenditure has not been compromised, says expenditure secretary Murmu

In other secretary appointments, IAS officer Girish Chandra Murmu will take charge as secretary, department of expenditure, in the finance ministry on superannuation of A.N. Jha on 31 January 2019