Finance Ministry Summons Infosys CEO Salil Parekh
Finance Ministry summons Infosys CEO Salil Parekh, know what is the whole matter: Income Tax Portal.
The technical glitches in the new e-filing portal of the Income Tax Department are not taking the name of ending. This is the reason that now the Finance Ministry is also becoming more strict on this matter.
The ministry has summoned Salil Parekh, managing director and CEO of Infosys, the company that developed the portal.
The ministry has asked Parekh to give an explanation to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman as to why the technical issues related to the portal have not been resolved even after two months of its launch.
Taking cognizance of the issue of the portal being ‘Not Available’ from the 21st of this month.
The ministry summoned the top Infosys official and asked him to inform why till now due to technical glitches the functioning of the website is facing the problem.
The Income Tax Department tweeted in this regard.
“Finance Ministry has summoned Infosys MD and CEO Salil Parekh to explain in front of the Finance Minister, that why technical glitches related to portal have not been fixed within 2.5 months of launch.”
Why could it not be removed even after that? In fact, the portal itself is not available from August 21, 2021.
It is noteworthy that the introduction of the new income tax e-filing portal ‘www.incometax.gov.in’ has been very poor.
This portal developed by Infosys is facing some kind of problem since its launch day. This website was launched on June 7, 2021.
Between January 2019 and June 2021, the government had paid Rs 164.5 crore to Infosys to develop the portal.
Finance Minister Sitharaman to launch National Monetization Pipeline tomorrow
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will launch the National Monetization Pipeline (NMP) on Monday.
Under this sinline, a list of such infrastructure assets of the government will be prepared, which will be sold by the government in the next four years.
The Ministry of Finance has given this information. A statement issued by the Finance Ministry on Sunday said, “NMP is a four-year pipeline.
This will include the brownfield infrastructure assets of the central government.
This will not only give investors some sort of vision but also prepare a medium-term roadmap for the government on the sale of properties through this pipeline.
