Murthy is presently serving arsenic the Secretary, Department of Higher Education, successful the Ministry of Education.
K Sanjay Murthy, a 1989-batch Himachal Pradesh cadre IAS officer, volition beryllium the adjacent Comptroller and Auditor General of India.
He volition win incumbent Girish Chandra Murmu, who is retiring connected November 20.
In a notification, Ministry of Finance said, “By virtuousness of the powerfulness vested successful her by clause (1) of nonfiction 148 of the Constitution of India, the President has been pleased to name Shri K. Sanjay Murthy to beryllium the Comptroller and Auditor General of India with effect from the day helium assumes complaint of his office.”
Murthy is presently serving arsenic the Secretary, Department of Higher Education, successful the Ministry of Education.
He has been holding the station since October 1, 2021. His tenure arsenic the Higher Education Secretary has been marred by insubstantial leak incidents.
Murmu assumed bureau arsenic the Comptroller and Auditor General of India August 8, 2020. Murmu’s tenure saw respective cardinal audit reports including audit of NDA government’s flagship road program, Bharatmala project, and Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojana.