Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi with CEC Gyanesh Kumar (centre). (Express photo by Rahul Sharma)

Three months after a work allocation order led two election commissioners to express concern and raise the matter with Cabinet Secretary T V Somanathan, the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday issued a fresh order, which, among other changes, brought back the layer of oversight over its Director General (IT), Seema Khanna, that had been removed on July 28.

Under the new order, Senior Deputy Election Commissioner (DEC) Pawan Kumar Sharma has been assigned charge of IT/ICT, with Khanna required to route files through him. “She would put up files of above-mentioned functional divisions through Sr.…