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Girish Chandra Murmu is a retired IAS officer who has served as 14th Comptroller and Auditor General of India from 2020 to 2024 and as the external auditor of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. He served as chairman of the United Nations Panel of External Auditors and the Asian Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions. He is currently the external auditor of the WHO (2020-2023), succeeding the Auditor General of the Philippines. He was the Inaugural Lieutenant Governor of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir till 6 August 2020. He is a 1985 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre and was principal secretary to Narendra Modi during his tenure as the Chief Minister of Gujarat.