New Delhi: A 1985-batch IAS officer Girish Chandra Murmu has been appointed as the Lt Governor of Jammu and Kashmir while a retired 1977 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Tripura cadre Radha Krishna Mathur has been appointed the Lieutenant Governor of the union territory of Ladakh.
The incumbent governor of the state Satya Pal Malik has been transferred to Goa.