{"id":23879,"date":"2020-06-23T10:48:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T10:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=23879"},"modified":"2020-06-23T10:48:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T10:48:06","slug":"govt-makes-country-of-origin-mandatory-for-gem-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/govt-makes-country-of-origin-mandatory-for-gem-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt makes country of origin mandatory for GeM platform"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a bid to promote self-reliant India and push country&#8217;s \u2018Make in India\u2019, online trading platform for state-run agencies \u2013 Government e-Marketplace (GeM), has made it mandatory for sellers to mention \u2018country of origin\u2019 on products they wish to sell through the platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Government e-Marketplace(GeM)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Government e-Marketplace owes its genesis to the recommendations of two Groups of Secretaries made to the Prime Minister in January 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GeM is a short form of one stop Government e-Market Place hosted by DGS&amp;D where common user goods and services can be procured. GeM is dynamic, self sustaining and user friendly portal for making procurement by Government officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Government e-Marketplace is a very bold step of the Government with the aim to transform the way in which procurement of goods and services is done by the Government Ministries and Departments, Public Sector Undertakings and other apex autonomous bodies of the Central Government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GeM has taken this significant step to promote \u2018Make in India\u2019 and \u2018Aatmanirbhar Bharat\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GeM has also enabled a provision for indication of the percentage of local content in products. With this new feature, now, the Country of Origin as well as the local content percentage are visible in the marketplace for all items. More importantly, the \u2018Make in India\u2019 filter has now been enabled on the portal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to promote self-reliant India and push country&#8217;s \u2018Make in India\u2019, online trading platform for state-run agencies \u2013 Government e-Marketplace (GeM), has made it mandatory for sellers to mention \u2018country of origin\u2019 on products they wish to sell through the platform. 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