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The emphasis on being ‘Vocal for The dynamic, self-sufficient and
PROGRESSING WITH
Local’ is not only to encourage small user-friendly GeM portal has been a
SMALL ENTERPRISES enterprises but also for the products
game-changer as it has not only helped
to be made competitive vis-a-vis the MSMEs directly engage with the
GOVERNMENT global brands. As envisioned by
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to Government but also provided the
Government with a wide range of products
e-MARKETPLACE promote and provide online market and prices on a single platform. Self-Help
access to various seller groups,
Government e-Market (GeM), an online Groups (SHGs), Women Self-Help Groups
There was a time when only big India is on its path of becoming a platform for public procurement by the (WSHGs), tribal communities, craftsmen,
companies could sell goods to the Government of India, was launched in
Self-Reliant nation. With every small and weavers have sold their products to
government. However, the country 2016.
is changing now; the old systems step that we take to promote our various Government ministries,
are also changing. Now even the indigenous products, we contribute to In the 87th edition of ‘Mann ki Baat’,
smallest of shopkeepers can sell departments and institutions on GeM,
one’s goods to the government on the achievement of that goal. Various Prime Minister Narendra Modi said amplifying its purpose of ‘Vocal for Local’.
the GeM Portal-this is the New initiatives under the leadership of Prime that “today our small entrepreneurs
India. She not only dreams big, but Minister Narendra Modi like ‘Vocal for are playing a major partnership role in Such direct and transparent access is
also shows the courage to reach helping small enterprises reach new
that goal, where no one has Local’, ‘Make in India’ and ‘AatmaNirbhar government procurement through
reached before. On the basis of Bharat’, have one goal - of building a ‘new GeM.” heights.
this very courage, all of us Indians
India, a strong India’.
together will definitely fulfil the
dream of an AatmaNirbhar
Bharat, a self-reliant India. When the whole world was facing the
challenge of COVID-19 pandemic,
Prime Minister Narendra Modi India too was not untouched by it.
(in his ‘Mann Ki Baat’ address) It was then that Prime Minister’s clarion
call of ‘AatmaNirbhar Bharat’ boosted
the nation’s spirit and developed
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi's
conviction in its capability of becoming
initiative of GeM, from a single click
self-empowered. At the heart of this
on a single platform different
vendor from all over India can idea lies the need to strengthen the
expand their business with ease. On potential of our homegrown
the portal, zero charges are businesses. The Prime Minister has
applicable from registration till
repeatedly expressed his confidence in
order processing. Even when the
our country’s farmers, artisans,
pandemic hit, we were able to
weavers, engineers, small
generate business through the
portal. The GeM team is also very entrepreneurs and the MSMEs and in
prompt in their support services. their ability to make competitive
products to boost ‘Make in India’ and
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