Chairman of panel of external auditors of UN - Girish Chandra Murmu
March 13 , 2021 1358 days 954 0
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India, Girish Chandra Murmu, has been appointed as chairman of the Panel of External Auditors of the United Nations for the second time in a row for 2021.
The UN General Assembly in 1959 established the Panel of External Auditors.
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Girish Chandra Murmu was the first Lt Governor of Union Territory (UT) of Jammu and Kashmir in October 2019 after its formation under the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019.
Presently, he is the External Auditor of the United Nations’ Specialized Agencies like
World Health Organization (WHO) (2020- 2023),
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (2020- 2025) and