Biographical note

Seema Jain, Secretary, the Government of India. She did her Masters in Sustainable Energy Policy (2016-18) from the School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada and MBA (Public Policy) 2007-08 from the University of Birmingham, UK. She conducted the Census of India 2011 as Director Census Operations, Punjab, from 2009-2014 for which she was awarded the President of India Silver Medal. Her areas of expertise include Rural Development, Information Technology, Housing and urban planning, Agricultural marketing, Horticulture, Food Processing, Forests and Environment, and Population Census taking in India.

Madhav Shyam, Deputy Director Directorate of Census, Punjab (now superannuated), has been associated with the Census organization for five decadal censuses. He was nominated by the office of Registrar Government of India (ORGI) for a ten week Course on ‘Population Census Geography’ at the University of East Anglia, UK; a six week Workshop on ‘GIS’ at US Bureau of Census, Washington and a one week Training Workshop on ‘Population and Poverty in South Asia organized jointly by the IIPS, Mumbai and UNESCAP. He is actively engaged in the census domain and is frequently invited to deliver lectures and talks at universities, training organizations and at other stakeholder forums.