Expenditure Secretary Girish Chandra Murmu, who served Narendra Modi as his Secretary when he was Gujarat Chief Minister, and former Defence Secretary RK Mathur have been appointed as the new Lt Governors of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh respectively.
The Centre on Friday transferred current J&K Governor Satyapal Malik to Goa and appointed Kerala BJP president PS Sreedharan Pillai as Governor of Mizoram. Former chief of Intelligence Bureau and interlocutor of J&K Dineshwar Sharma has been appointed Lakshadweep Administrator.
While Murmu, a 1985-batch Gujarat cadre officer, is serving as the Expenditure Secretary in the Union Finance Ministry, Mathur, a 1977-batch officer, has served as the Defence Secretary and is a former Chief Information Commissioner (CIC).
Murmu is scheduled to retire from service on November 21. Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, the two Union Territories will come into existence on October 31, 2019.