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Navjot Singh Sidhu discusses e-governance with Nandan Nilekani

Chandigarh: Punjab Local Government Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu today met Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani to discuss the progress made through e-governance in all the 167 urban local bodies (ULBs) of the state.

The minister also took up the issue of operationalizing the Mohali campus of Infosys, an official release read.

The discussion at Bengaluru centred around doorstep delivery of government services, the release said.

In this context, e-governance would play a critical role by increasing transparency, simplifying service delivery, and driving efficiency, the release said.

The entire exercise would result in manifold increase in revenue collection which in turn would enable delivery of high-quality services to people, he said.

Nilekani, drawing on his cross-sectoral experience with digital transformation at scale, concurred on the need for capacity building to ensure long-term statewide benefits arising out of this programme.

An MoU was signed in February with the eGovernments Foundation, also co-founded by Nilekani, to provide solutions for e-governance of urban local bodies (ULBs) throughout Punjab.

Sidhu said that 500 IT savvy experts would be hired through TCS for the capacity building of ULBs.

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I-T department files chargesheets against Chidambarams under black money act

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The Income Tax department on Friday filed four chargesheets against former Union finance minister P Chidambaram, his wife Nalini, son Karti and daughter-in-law Srinidhi under the Black Money Act for allegedly not disclosing their foreign assets.

The chargesheets or prosecution complaints have been filed by the department before a special court in Chennai under Section 50 of the Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015, officials said.

Nalini Chidambaram, Karti and Srinidhi have been charged for allegedly not disclosing, either partly or fully, immovable assets like the one at Cambridge in the UK worth Rs 5.37 crore, property worth Rs 80 lakh in the same country and assets worth Rs 3.28 crore in the US, they said.

The chargesheets claimed that the Chidambarams “did not disclose” these investments to the tax authority as also by the firm co-owned by Karti – Chess Global Advisory, in violation of the black money law.

The law was brought by the Modi government in 2015 as part of its drive against black money and to prosecute those Indians who have secretly stashed illicit wealth abroad.

The department had recently issued notices to Karti and his family members in the case which he had challenged before the Madras high court.

Karti had refused to join the probe stating that he had already submitted the details of the asset and related transactions undertaken last year to another tax authority, and that “parallel proceedings” cannot take place against an individual under the same law.

The writ petition was later quashed by the high court.

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