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GSTN Disaster - Who is to blame?


Competence of Infosys

1)Infosys may take pride for developing GST system. However, look at the quality of software of WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook,Utube etc. How do they manage massive database? No complain from any of the users. There are lots of things to learn from them.

2)With regard to last item of corruption by three employees, once again it raises doubt about quality of software developed by Infosys. Two main issues arises herein as under:

a.How is it that the employees of Infosys were permitted to tinker with the System and by-pass procedure laid down by the Government?

b.How is it that there was no warning alert from the System to higher authorities about by-passing the process laid down?

Was it not a pure by chance that the racket has come out in public domain?

It is not the question of ethical value or moral aspect of the employees but the quality of product developed by Infosys.

All these raises doubt about competence of Infosys of developing full-proof system.

We do not know how many such cases are remaining to be undetected.

It is high time we come out of halo created by marketing people.

The country is paying very high price of incompetence of Infosys.

Pradip Shah 11/03/2020

 

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