Six core tasks in 18 months: How Infosys rolled out GST

Infosys is also responsible for maintaining and servicing the GST online ecosystem for five years

India’s second-largest Information Technology (IT) company, Infosys, was selected as the managed service provider in November 2015 to roll out the Goods & Services Tax (GST) by April 1, 2017. Infosys was tasked with completing six core tasks in a span of 18 months in a contract reportedly worth Rs 1,380 crore. These tasks covered the entire spectrum of creating an IT ecosystem required for rolling out GST in the time frame prescribed by the Modi administration. 

The first task was application design, development, and its implementation. As part of this, Infosys was required to develop a common portal for