Topic: Government procurement

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 (National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Limited) is to...

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, 121.5 million are without works. Highlights The data says that...

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, the Price Support Scheme for the Rabi season has been...

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 light machine guns (LMGs). According to the contract which was...

March 21, 2020

Inclusion of Regional Languages in Medicine Labels by Government

The inclusion of regional languages on medicine labels in India represents an important policy discussion aimed at improving patient safety, accessibility, and understanding of medical information across a...

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 Commerce Ministry to set a target of Rs 50,000 Crore...

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 projects under the Strategic Partnership (SP) model. SBI Caps [Capital...

September 27, 2018

Msme Sambandh

MSME Sambandh is a Public Procurement portal for Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) launched by government. The objective of the portal is to monitor the implementation of...

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 Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs, in New Delhi...

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 Acquisition and Knowledge Awareness for Livelihood Promotion (SANKALP) Project on...

December 15, 2017

Giriraj Singh launches a public procurement portal ‘MSME Sambandh’

Giriraj Singh, the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for MSME, has launched a Public Procurement Portal ‘MSME Sambandh’ in New Delhi on December 8, 2017. The purpose...

December 11, 2017

Binoy Kumar appointed new Special Secretary in Union commerce ministry

Binoy Kumar, a 1983-batch IAS officer of the Telangana cadre, has been appointed the new Special Secretary in commerce ministry. He is the Director General of Directorate General...

November 7, 2017