New Delhi , October 25, 2019 : Senior bureaucrat Girish Chandra Murmu has been appointed as Lieutenant Governor of Jammu-Kashmir.Sat Pal Malik transferred to Goa .Girish Chandra Murmu currently holds the post of Expenditure Secretary in the finance ministry. Murmu is the first LG of Jammu & Kashmir. Murmu was appointed OSD in the Expenditure Department in November last year.
Girish Chandra Murmu is a 1985 batch Indian Administrative Service officer Odisha cadre and was principal secretary to Narendra Modi during his tenure as CM of Gujarat.
Apart from these appointments, Kovind has also cleared the appointment of P. S. Sreedharan Pillai as the Governor of Mizoram.