{"id":325243,"date":"2020-08-08T08:16:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T08:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=325243"},"modified":"2020-08-08T08:16:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T08:16:54","slug":"girish-chandra-murmu-sworn-in-as-comptroller-and-auditor-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/girish-chandra-murmu-sworn-in-as-comptroller-and-auditor-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Girish Chandra Murmu sworn in as Comptroller and Auditor General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-325244 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/murmu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/08\/murmu.jpg 850w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/08\/murmu-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/08\/murmu-768x466.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/08\/murmu-696x423.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/08\/murmu-692x420.jpg 692w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/>Former Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor Girish Chandra Murmu was on Saturday sworn in as the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), the Rashtrapati Bhavan said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAt a ceremony held today (August 8, 2020) at 1030 hrs in the Ashoka Hall, Rashtrapati Bhavan, Shri Girish Chandra Murmu was sworn in as the Comptroller and Auditor-General of India.\u00a0 He made and subscribed to the oath of office before the President,\u201d a statement from President\u2019s office read.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cGirish Chandra Murmu will have a tenure upto 20.11.2024,\u201d it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Murmu who was earlier appointed as\u00a0the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir stepped down from the post on Thursday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Murmu took charge as the first Lt Governor of Jammu and Kashmir in October 2019 after it was made a Union Territory.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor Girish Chandra Murmu was on Saturday sworn in as the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), the Rashtrapati Bhavan said. \u201cAt a ceremony held today (August 8, 2020) at 1030 hrs in the Ashoka Hall, Rashtrapati Bhavan, Shri Girish Chandra Murmu was sworn in as the Comptroller and Auditor-General of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":325244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[2628,11943],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325245,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325243\/revisions\/325245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/325244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}