Overview
- An order issued on November 7 places Amit Sharma on central deputation as full-time Director Census Operations for Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh.
- The posting is under the Central Staffing Scheme for five years or until further orders, according to officials.
- Sharma has been instructed to assume charge within three weeks of the order’s issuance.
- He was serving as Mizoram’s ICT secretary with additional charge as director census and is a native of Jammu & Kashmir.
- Reporting characterizes the upcoming exercise in the two union territories as a technology-led “digital” census that he is expected to oversee, with no detailed schedule disclosed.