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In a major decision two IAS officers Girish Chandra Murmu and R K Mathur have been appointed the new Lt Governors of Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh respectively, an official communication said .
Following the appointment of Murmu, incumbent state Governor Satya Pal Malik has been moved to Goa , a Rashtrapati Bhawan statement said.
While Murmu, a 1985-batch Gujarat cadre officer, is serving as the Expenditure Secretary in the Union Finance Ministry, Mathur, a 1977-batch officer of Tripura cadre, has served as the defence secretary and retired as Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) in November 2018.
The two Union Territories will come into existence on October 31.
The Modi government had on August 5 abrogated provisions of Article 370 that granted a special status to Jammu and Kashmir.
