Current Affairs - Persons - Discussion

The Unique Identification Authority of India's (UIDAI) chief executive officer (CEO) A.B. Pandey was appointed interim chairman of the goods and services tax network (GSTN)-the firm providing information technology (IT) backbone and portal for registration and tax returns under the GST regime. GSTN is a section 8 (under new companies Act, not-for-profit companies are governed under section 8), non-government, private limited company. It was incorporated on 28 March 2013 with the Government of India holding 24.5% equity.