Sitharaman meets Infosys officials, reviews tech glitches on I-T e-filing portal

Union finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday told officials concerned to address all issues regarding the technical glitches that the new income tax e-filing portal faced “without further loss of time, improve their services, redress grievances on priority as it was impacting taxpayers adversely”.

Sitharaman was speaking after holding a review meet with Infosys officials over the glitch. Minister of state for finance Anurag Thakur, revenue secretary Tarun Bajaj, CBDT chairperson Jagannath Mohapatra and other senior ministry officials were also present at the meeting.

Infosys, the vendor which developed the new site, was represented by its chairperson Salil Parekh and chief operating officer Shri Praveen Rao along with a few other members from the company.