More than three months after the row over movement of IT Head Seema Khanna’s files , the Election Commission of India has issued a fresh order bringing back oversight over her department through a Deputy Election Commissioner.
Khanna a free hand, enabling her to directly report to the Commission. Garg, who had been in interim charge of Administration department. The letters to the Cabinet Secretary, by Dr. Sandhu and Dr. Joshi obtained through RTI by transparency activist Commodore (retired) Lokesh Batra explained their objections regarding Dr.
An internal order issued on July 28 by Senior DEC Maneesh Garg had removed Deputy Election Commissioner Sanjay Kumar from the charge of IT and ICT and gave Dr. Following this, two Election Commissioners S S Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had written to Cabinet Secretary T V Somanathan on July 29 regarding the working allocation order of Dr.
The sources also said that the work allocation orders were as per unanimous decisions of the Commission. Garg changing the work allocation of officers “within hours of” getting the charge of administration wing “without discussing or informing” them despite “repeated and explicit oral and written” instructions to all officers. Both ECs had also said that Dr. Garg had “issued similar orders on one earlier occasion” while he was working as DEC (Administration).
