The President of India on Thursday appointed G.C. Murmu, who quit as the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir yesterday, as the new Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG). . He would replace the incumbent CAG Rajiv Mehrishi who is set to retire on August 8.Murmu is a 1985-batch Gujarat cadre IAS officer. He is from Sundargarh district in Odisha and holds a Masters Degree from Utkal University in Bhubaneshwar and an MBA from the University of Birmingham in the UK.He was the first LG of the Union Territory of J&K after the bifurcation of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir into the Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh.Article 148 of the Constitution of India provides for the appointment of the CAG by the President of India. The CAG is not eligible for further office either under the Government of India or under the Government of any State after he has ceased to hold his office.As a constitutional functionary, CAG is primarily entrusted with the responsibility to audit the accounts and related activities of the three tiers of Government – Federal, Provincial and Local; the State-owned public sector commercial enterprises; and autonomous bodies financed by the Federal and Provincial Governments. CAG reports are laid before the Parliament and Legislatures of the Provinces.
