TAGUP

TAGUP
Agency overview
Formed	June 2010; 14 years ago
Jurisdiction	Government of India
Headquarters	New Delhi
Agency executive	Nandan Nilekani, Chairman;
Parent department	Ministry of Finance

Technology Advisory Group for Unique Projects (TAGUP) is a Government of India advisory group to look into technology part of 5 large financial sector projects.^[1] It is headed by former UIDAI chairman, Nandan Nilekani.^[2]

Areas

The committee will make recommendations on the roadmap to roll out the five financial projects are

Tax Information Network (TIN)
National Pension Scheme (NPS)
National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA)
Expenditure Information Network (EIN)
Goods and Services Tax (GST)^[3]

Report

TAGUP submitted its report in early February 2011 and had the following key recommendations.^[4]

Setting up National Information Utilities (NIUs) as private companies with public purpose.
Having a dedicated Mission Leader with a Mission Execution Team.

The report also identified common challenges faced by large complex IT projects in the government and provided specific solutions of the evaluation of GST, TIN, EIN, NTMA and NPS at hand. The project reported can be accessed on the Ministry of Finance website.^[5]

Members

The members of the committee include

C. B. Bhave – Former SEBI chairman
R. Chandrasekhar – IT Secretary
Nachiket Mor – Board Member at RBI, CRISL, CARE, Sughavazhvu Healthcare, Institute for Financial Management and Research and IKP Centre for Technologies in Public Health^[6]
Dhirendra Swarup – former chairman PFRDA
S. S. Khan – former Member (CBDT)
P. R. V. Ramanan – former Member (CBEC)