With the retire of GSTN Chairman Navin Kumar, Aadhaar authority UIDAI Chief Executive Ajay Bhushan Pandey was on Friday given additional charge as chairman of the Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN).
“Dr Ajay Bhushan Pande will hold charge of chairman GSTN in place of Navin Kumar who retired recently. He is DG UIDAI (Aadhar)”, Revenue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia said in a tweet. Kumar retired as Chairman GSTN in the last week of August.
“He brings with him his vast experience of implementing complex IT projects. I welcome him to the Team GST of Revenue deptt,” the Secretary said in a separate tweet.
Pandey, a Senior officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), has been associated with the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) since its launch in 2010. Pandey graduated from IIT Kanpur and holds an MS and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota in the US.
GSTN has created and operates the digital network for the Goods and Services Tax (GST) that has been implemented pan-India from July 1. The GSTN portal has been non-functional on several occasions in this period being unable to handle the rush to file returns coming closer to the deadline.
The government has extended the deadline for filing the GST sales return — GSTR-1 — which was to expire on Tuesday, for another five days till September 10.
