Failed to apply Plugin : 'com.facebook.react'

[anuragkumarjsk]

The following is a list of version of packages and dependencies i am using

NPM packages
"react-native" : "0.67.4"
"react-native-gesture-handler": "^2.6.1",

build.gradle file
kotlinVersion = "1.5.20"
buildToolsVersion = "30.0.3"
minSdkVersion = 21
compileSdkVersion = 31
targetSdkVersion = 31

Gradle-Wrapper-Properties
distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.4-all.zip

Stacktrace :

What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating project ':react-native-gesture-handler'.

Failed to apply plugin 'com.facebook.react'.
Extension of type 'AndroidComponentsExtension' does not exist. Currently registered extension types: [ExtraPropertiesExtension, ReactExtension]