Former Lieutenant-General of Jammu and Kashmir, Girish Chandra Murmu has been appointed as the new Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India.
Preceded by Rajiv Mehrishi, he will be the 14th CAG of India. The 1985 batch IAS officer took charge as the 1st Lieutenant Governor (LG) of Jammu and Kashmir after the formation of the new Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir under the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019. Following his resignation on Wednesday, Manoj Sinha will succeed as the new LG.
Murmu was the Relief Commissioner when Narendra Modi became the Chief Minister of Gujarat. in 2004, he was made Joint Secretary of Home Department, which was headed by Amit Shah and directly supervised by Modi.
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India is an authority, established by Article 148 of the Constitution of India, which audits all receipts and expenditure of the Government of India and the state governments, including those of bodies and authorities substantially financed by the government. The CAG is also the external auditor of Government-owned corporations and conducts a supplementary audit of government companies, i.e., any non-banking/non-insurance company in which the Union Government has an equity share of at least 51 percent or subsidiary companies of existing government companies.
