Iva Ashish Srivastava's Tenure as Director, Census Operations, Uttarakhand, Extended to December 2027

The central deputation tenure of Iva Ashish Srivastava, a 2010-batch IAS officer, has been extended, with her continuing to serve as Director, Census Operations, Uttarakhand, until December 31, 2027.

The Directorate of Census Operations in each state functions under the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India, coordinating decennial Census enumeration, civil registration of births and deaths, and maintenance of the National Population Register within the state, a role carrying dual reporting lines between the state administration and the central Census organisation.

Extending Srivastava's tenure through 2027 gives her continuity to oversee both routine civil registration functions and the more intensive preparatory work that typically precedes the next decennial Census enumeration, including enumerator recruitment, training, and jurisdictional boundary verification across Uttarakhand's hill and plains districts.

Uttarakhand's terrain, spanning both hill districts with dispersed populations and plains districts with denser settlement patterns, presents distinct enumeration logistics challenges, making experienced continuity at the Director level particularly valuable ahead of the next full Census cycle.

Tenure extensions for Directors of Census Operations are typically granted when the central Census organisation considers continuity valuable for the specific preparatory work underway in a state, rather than transitioning to a new officer who would need time to build familiarity with the state's specific enumeration challenges.

The extension keeps Srivastava in place through a period that is expected to see increased Census-related preparatory activity nationally, as groundwork for the next enumeration cycle typically intensifies in the years leading up to the formal count.

The extension order was issued jointly through the Uttarakhand government's General Administration Department and the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, which administers the Census organisation nationally.