After Article 370 included in Indian Constitution by Indian Government Jammu & Kashmir change the status of being state into Union Territory.
Now 2 Union Territory is added as Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh.
As the new rules applied in Jammu &Kashmir and Ladakh the appointment of new and first Lieutenant general have been made as Girish Chandra Murmu for Jammu & Kashmir and R.K. Mathur for Ladakh.
The oath ceremony organise at Raj Bhavan under the supervision of Justice Gita Mittal ,CJ of Jammu & Kashmir High Court.
He will come into existence on the anniversary of Iron Man of India.
On 31st October 2019 , Girish Chandra Murmu take oath as the first Lieutenant Governor of Jammu & Kashmir and also R.K.Mathur as the Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh.
They will succeed the retired Governor Satya Pal Malik .
Intro of Girish Chandra Murmu
- He becomes the first Lieutenant Governor of Jammu& Kashmir .
- on 21 November 2019 he took birth.
- He is an MBA and Post graduate in political science.
- Girish Chandra Murmu is from the 1985 batch of IAS of Gujarat cadre.
- When our PM Shri Narendra Modi was the Chief minister of Gujarat he also serve as the principal secretary to him.
- Currently serve as the Expenditure Secretary under Union Ministry of Finance .
- He is from Tripura- cadre 1977- batch IAS officer
- He is also Chief Information Commissioner in November 2018.
- R.K.Mathur also serve as the defence Secretary in Union Ministry of Defence .
- He also serve as the Micro, small and Medium enterprises secretary of India .
- Also as the Development commissioner and the Chief Enforcement Officer in the Union Ministry of textiles
- Besides this, Mathur also previously serve in the Tripura state government as Principal Secretary of Finance, Principal Secretary of Agriculture and the Chief Secretary of Tripura.
Jammu & Kashmir legislative assembly is like Pondicherry and Ladakh assembly is like Chandigarh.
