Indian Govt IT projects and challenges Indian IT Services companies face

Interestingly, there were many suggestions that IT firms can work with startups which have enabled seamless transactions for millions. A user on Twitter said: "If offered, ClearTax could have developed a much better income tax and GST portal than Infosys.” Several users backed this view.

Archit Gupta, founder & CEO, Clear Tax, a financial services firm focused on taxation, said in a tweet, “We are ready to provide a version of ClearTax for the National Portal and serve. We have a scalable, ready solution for all taxes.”

Why Indian IT struggles with India government projects

Industry executives Moneycontrol spoke to said factors like undefined scope, inflexible milestones, delay in payment, and lack of ownership from government are some of the reasons. 

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While Infosys faced similar problems when it was working on the MCA21 (Ministry of Corporate Affairs) and the GSTN (Ministry of Finance) projects, Wipro has had its fair share of troubles with projects such as Employee State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) project. TCS, which runs India's passport project, the Indian Railways’ IRCTC site, and India Post’s digital project, is an outlier and has had relatively better success here.

The India market contributes to less than 5 percent of revenues for top software exporters. In FY21, revenues from the country for TCS was 5.1 percent, and Infosys' stood at 3 percent. Wipro's business from state-run enterprises was $121.8 million, barely 2 percent of the company's $8.1 billion annual revenue number.

HCL Tech does not share India revenues separately. However, revenues from the rest of the world, which includes all countries, barring Americas and Europe, account only for about 8.9 percent

"I know about Infosys there is not a single project Infosys has done and I believe the same story where the company has not lost money, that's a reality, when dealing with the governments," Murthy told CNBC-TV18. 2015 Nov. 

Stating that Indian companies derive 90-98 per cent of their revenues from global corporations, Murthy said the prices are "very attractive" outside India.

He added that low price, delayed payments, not accepting software on time, changing requirements mid-stream, not allocating enough time to define requirements and in some cases, corruption are some of the issues that IT firms faced while working on government projects.

“Startups can take up parts of the solution, but they do not have the scale, insights into government functioning, capability to build such a massive and complex system end-to-end. They can definitely partner with larger service providers,” said Everest Group Vice President Yugal Joshi.

Why resumes get hired...we hacked the hiring process

 Why resumes get hired not people?

Resumes are marketing's first bait...

Look at resumes written at MBA colleges, they boast of their projects, their awards and publications, recommendations, their significant achievements etc.

We believe all that, why? Because they are written and no one writes such things without doing them in real, right? We as human beings believe in the rightness of the world than it going wrong..

MBA schools are your simulation grounds for the real life that awaits outside...more you practice being unreal and be comfortable with that, you have the right lenses for the world....there is nothing wrong in the world, there is no lie, there is nothing designed to go wrong...We love listening to good things, bad things, fake things, troubling things are disturbing to the belief of being good and good for future...

Challengers are trouble makers....peace loving people run the world...

Ignore everything that looks fake, imperfect, risky and immoral, unethical...they have their rights to be there...you be selfish, become numb and dumb and you will enjoy happiness...Ultimate aim is happiness...

No one is born , who is not made to go through suffering as Buddha said....This world is a temporary place...

Ever heard, fake it to make it....false beliefs are powerful tools...human mind can be easily tricked, you don't need to be bi-polar, just be extremely self-centric and life gets easy for you...

Human life on earth is designed for being who you are to the fullest...

A good friend, who has always been caring , called me a few days back to ask, how are things? He advised, I start offering my services as a freelance recruiter for recruiting firms. 

I believe that's a good job, it keeps you busy, you don't get paid anything till they make money and they remember you to pay, but who needs a freelance recruiter? They post the job, get tonnes of waste and some good one's too, process goes on, someone is selected from known circuits and you enjoyed talking to candidates and kept answering them for million hours, why they never heard from the company? You write million messages, few million emails and answer equal number of calls....they will finally hire someone they know...

I was asked for my resume over email by a recruiting firm called solutioner, a few days back for their client (later I got to know it was for Rakuten) .

Solutioner recruiter asked over email for more details and write ups and I sent it...Not heard back for weeks..

Asked him over email, he says, oh , sorry got busy, they had 700 L&D/OD resumes and he didn't know there were so many L&D folks....anyways, later in the week he responded that their client Rakuten (here he disclosed name) took and selected their first batch candidate...

I pity, if this senior recruiter even knew what an L&D profile and OD experience is like...

Looked at Rakuten, saw their whole HR leadership is average, lower rung education and their LinkedIn profile tells you, how ordinary they are...will they take a smarter guy? No, so , please watch Rakuten India and see, who joined them as L&OD Head at Bangalore...

See, what is her/his connection with Rakuten folks? You will find they come from their insider contact, their previous company, even region of education, same MBA college from Mangalore, etc, same previous company, etc...this is common...

Hack this trend and you will be successful..

I remember , 2003/4/5 till 2008, recruitment consultants were very keen on screening and screening interviews were serious, but after 2008/9, it became all casual and recruiters got hold of the psychology behind hiring and everything was conveniently aligned, gender, MBA college, looks, regions, language, company, it was all worked out.. 

Above game is not for tech hiring....for tech,  specialized roles, such hacking doesn't work...