The Andhra Pradesh government, incidentally, is the happiest with this development. For, with every other state that deploys this software based on the solution implemented in AP, the state government gets a royalty.
The Hyderabad centre of TCS has developed the software for Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Sikkim, Tripura, Nagaland and Mizoram. For the northeastern states, it has collaborated with its Kolkata centre in developing the software solution.
Besides TCS, the other players in this domain are CMC Limited, Crown Agents and Mastek Limited. While the UK-based Crown Agents has tied up with the Karnataka government in this regard, Delhi-based CMC Limited has deployed its software in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Chattisgarh. In fact, TCS is also implementing the VAT software in Delhi with CMC Limited.
