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Seema Khanna is the Director General (IT), Election Commission of India. She joined the ECI in 2025 on deputation from the National Informatics Centre (NIC), under MeitY.
B.Tech +
M.Tech + PhD in Information Security , IIT Delhi.
At NIC, she worked on government technology infrastructure and was part of the team involved in Aarogya Setu.
Seema Khanna heads the ECIтАЩs IT division. On 22 January 2026, ECI launched ECINET, integrating 40+ ECI apps and portals. ECINET is the digital infrastructure through which electoral-roll work is processed, a technology no longer merely a support function, it is a тАЬstrategic enabler.тАЭ
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The EROs are statutory authorities responsible for additions, corrections and deletions in electoral rolls under the Representation of the People Act, 1950. Yet ECI records show repeated concerns that their access was being restricted by the central IT system.
тЦкя╕ПDeputy Election Commissioner Sanjay Kumar had written to Seema Khanna stressing that the IT system must not restrict the statutory powers of EROs.
тЦкя╕П4 November 2025: Deputy Election Commissioner Sanjay Kumar raised concerns with Khanna about EROs' access to the software.
тЦкя╕П2 January 2026: Kumar again wrote to Khanna, asking that the IT system not restrict the statutory powers of EROs.
тЦкя╕П22 January 2026: ECI launched ECINET, integrating 40+ applications and portals.
the centralisation of the voter database and restrictions on Electoral Registration Officers (EROs).
тЦкя╕ПIn May 2026, Election Commissioner Vivek Joshi proposed an independent IIT-expert audit to certify that no one except statutory authorities had credentials to alter the voter database.
тЦкя╕ПOn August 14,Sukhbir Singh Sandhu specifically recorded that DG (IT) Seema Khanna has no legal authority to restrict the access and freedom given by law to statutory EROs
тЦкя╕ПCan the ECI's central IT machinery override, restrict or otherwise control the statutory authority of EROs who are legally responsible for electoral rolls?
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тЦкя╕П Maneesh Garg тАФ Senior Deputy Election Commissioner, 1996-batch IAS officer, Himachal Pradesh cadre.
тЦкя╕ПManeesh Garg Deputy Election Commissioner, ECI the post held by him has been granted a one-year extension at the Additional Secretary level, up to September 1, 2027. Garg has been with the ECI since September 2024,before that he was Himachal Pradesh CEO.
тЦкя╕ПOn July 28, 2026, while holding additional charge of administration, Garg changed the ECIтАЩs work allocation.
тЦкя╕ПThe order removed Deputy Election Commissioner Sanjay Kumar from the oversight chain of DG(IT) , the very chain through which IT matters were being routed to the Commission.
тЦкя╕ПSandhu and Joshi objected and separately wrote to the Cabinet Secretary.
тЦкя╕ПThe two Commissioners subsequently set GargтАЩs order aside and restored the earlier arrangement pending consensus.
тЧ╛Abhishek Banerjee publicly named Seema Khanna over Bengal's SIR, alleging she admitted in a private conversation that the EC's 1.36 crore "logical discrepancy" figure was wrong and said he had screenshots of the exchange.
тЧ╛A PIL has now reportedly been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a judicial, SIT investigation into alleged SIR irregularities and naming Gyanesh Kumar, Maneesh Garg and Seema Khanna among the respondents. The petition reportedly seeks preservation of ECINet server logs, databases, communications and metadata from October 1, 2025 onward. The server logs + user access logs + timestamps + database-change history + administrator credentials + audit trails + communications + software change records.
These things that could actually establish who changed what, when, from where, and under whose credentials.