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Massive Exercise to supply pulses and food grains to 80 crore people

On May 8, 2020, Union Minister for Food and Public Distribution Shri Ram Vilas Paswan announced that NAFED...

📅 May 9, 2020

CMIE: Unemployment rate climbs to 27.1%

On May 5, 2020, the Centre for Monitoring of Indian Economy released unemployment data. According to the data,...

📅 May 6, 2020

Procurement of Pulses and Oil Seeds from Farmers

The Government of India has procured oil seeds and pulses from farmers directly at Minimum Support Prices. Currently,...

📅 April 19, 2020

MoD signs 880 crore contract with Israel Weapons Industries

The Defence Ministry has recently signed an 880-crore contract with Israel Weapons Industries (IWI) for procurement of 16,479...

📅 March 21, 2020

Government to include the regional language in the medicine labels

The government procurement agencies should take necessary steps in the tendering process to include the regional language, along...

📅 April 27, 2019

Govt Targets Rs 50,000-Crore in Fiscal Year 2020 Through Gem

India’s public procurement portal Government e-marketplace (GeM) has witnessed a multifold increase in transactions which ultimately led the...

📅 April 18, 2019

SBI Caps appointed as transaction adviser to Ministry of Defence

For the first time, the Defence Ministry has appointed a transaction adviser and a legal adviser for procurement...

📅 September 27, 2018

Msme Sambandh

MSME Sambandh is a Public Procurement portal for Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) launched by government. The...

📅 April 7, 2018

New Delhi hosts 5th edition of South Asia Region Public Procurement Conference

The 5th edition of the South Asia Region Public Procurement Conference (SARPPC-2018) was inaugurated by Arun Jaitley, the...

📅 February 7, 2018

India signs loan agreement with World Bank (WB) for SANKALP project

The Government of India (GoI) has signed a $250 million loan agreement with the World Bank for Skills...

📅 December 15, 2017

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