{"id":125890,"date":"2020-05-24T01:54:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T20:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=125890"},"modified":"2020-05-24T01:54:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T20:24:06","slug":"aacwa-seeks-govts-clear-stand-on-gem-procurement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/05\/24\/aacwa-seeks-govts-clear-stand-on-gem-procurement\/","title":{"rendered":"AACWA seeks govt&#8217;s clear stand on GeM procurement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, May 23:<\/strong> The All Arunachal Contractor&#8217;s Welfare Association (AACWA) has urged the deputy chief minister, who also holds the finance portfolio, to make his stand clear about implementation of the government e-marketing (GeM) in the state.<br \/>\nThe association claimed that the DCM had assured them to discuss the issue with finance department earlier, &#8220;but there is no result.&#8221;<br \/>\nStating that many organizations have raised objection<br \/>\nto the government&#8217;s move for procurement of health materials worth Rs 55.95 crores under the North East Special Infrastructure Development Scheme (NESIDS), 2020-21 through GeM portal, the association questioned on the direct involvement of outside companies in supply works, &#8220;whereas many local contractors and entrepreneurs of the state are involved in supply works for many decades.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe association further urged the state government to allocate funds to all departments concerned under BE-2020-21, claiming that during the last financial year 2019-20, many schemes were not getting funds due to shortage of time and Covid-19.<br \/>\nIt said that the contractors who had already completed the awarded projects did not receive payment from the executive departments due to non-allocation of funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, May 23: The All Arunachal Contractor&#8217;s Welfare Association (AACWA) has urged the deputy chief minister, who also holds the finance portfolio, to make his stand clear about implementation of the government e-marketing (GeM) in the state. The association claimed that the DCM had assured them to discuss the issue with finance department earlier, &#8220;but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-125890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}