Shirish Chandra Murmu appointed RBI Deputy GovernorNew Delhi: The Union government on Monday appointed Shirish Chandra Murmu as a Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India for a tenure of three years. He first took charge as Deputy Governor in 2020 for a period of three years, and later he was granted two extensions for a year, in 2023 and 2024. Earlier last month, the government appointed former RBI Governor Dr Urjit Patel as the Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a period of three years. In 2016, he succeeded Raghuram Rajan as the 24th Governor of the RBI. He served the shortest term as Governor of the RBI since 1992 and was the first to leave for personal reasons in 2018.