Sheetal Verma

About

IAS officer borne on UP Cadre. Economist by training.
Currently, Director of Census Operations, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt of India.
Doctoral Fellow at International Institute for Population Sciences.
Keen interest in data analytics, Demography, HR and finance. Worked at various levels of government.
Photographer/ Quizzer/ Baker / Craftsperson / Urban Jungle Believer

Employment

• Government of India
  2021 - Present

Education

• International Institute for Population Sciences PhD Scholar
  2023 - Present
• Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration
  2007 - 2008
• JNU MA Economics
  2004 - 2006
• Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University BA (Hons) Economics
  2001 - 2004

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (8)

• How Health Systems Are Becoming India’s Identity Infrastructure
  2026
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• Strengthening Civil Registration Through Grassroots Health Institutions in India
  Sheetal Verma, Somnath Jana, Ritul Kamal +2 more
  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2026 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph23020257
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• From delivery to identity: applying transaction cost economics to health-enabled civil registration in India
  Sheetal Verma, Ritul Kamal, Laxmi Kant Dwivedi +1 more
  Frontiers in Public Health 2026 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1743341
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• Who gets counted? Understanding low female death registration in India
  Sheetal Verma, Ritul Kamal, Laxmi Kant Dwivedi +1 more
  PLOS One 2025 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0337224
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• Impact of Institutionalisation of Births on Health Policies and Birth Registration in India
  Sheetal Verma, Laxmi Kant Dwivedi, Ritul Kamal
  Annals of Global Health 2024 DOI: 10.5334/aogh.4474
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• Birth/death registration system being made simple
  Hindustan Times 2023
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• UP's digital turn on birth, death records
  Hindustan Times 2023
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• Economy-Environment Linkages
  Problems and Prospects of Environment Policy 2008
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