CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Mr. Girish Chandra Murmu, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, has been elected as External Auditor of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna for a six year term from 2022 to 2027.

Detailed explanation-2: -India’s Comptroller and Auditor General, GC Murmu was selected as the external auditor of IAEA.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the press conference following the signing ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., President Eisenhower evoked his address to the UN General Assembly in December 1953, at which he had proposed to establish the IAEA.

Detailed explanation-4: -The IAEA Board of Governors elected by acclamation Ambassador Ivo Sramek as the Chairperson of the IAEA’s Board of Governors for 2022–2023. His one-year term commences today. He succeeds Ambassador Ham Sang Wook of the Republic of Korea.