{"id":66036,"date":"2019-05-03T01:13:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T19:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=66036"},"modified":"2019-05-03T01:13:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T19:43:35","slug":"govt-depts-must-adopt-gem-tashi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/05\/03\/govt-depts-must-adopt-gem-tashi\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt depts must adopt GeM: Tashi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>ITANAGAR, May 2:<\/strong> Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Secretary Rinchin Tashi said the state government has made it mandatory for all government departments and agencies to adopt the Government e-Marketplace (GeM) for procuring goods and services.<br \/>\nAddressing the inaugural session of a two-day state level orientation programme on GeM here on Thursday, Tashi stressed on orienting and sensitizing all the departments on the need to ensure proper implementation of the GeM.<br \/>\nHe said procuring goods and services through the GeM would help in easing the pressure on government officials.<br \/>\nTashi also stressed the need for offsetting the negative mindset associated with online procurement by government departments.<br \/>\n&#8220;Procurement through the GeM has demonstrated accrual of saving of government grants of up to 26 percent, which is a substantial saving of public funds,&#8221; he said, and advocated adopting the medium to procure goods and services &#8220;after proper planning.&#8221;<br \/>\nEarlier, State Institute of Rural Development &amp; Panchayati Raj (SIRD &amp; PR) Director Vijay Kumar Sharma said the central and state grants mandate compliance with the General Financial Rules, 2017, &#8220;which in turn requires compliance with procurement through the GeM under Rule 149.&#8221;<br \/>\nSharma stressed on the need for &#8220;proper and timely assessment of requirements for enabling all concerned departments and agencies for leveraging the GeM for procurement of goods and services.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe programme was organized by the SIRD &amp; PR, with technical support from the National Institute of Rural Development &amp; Panchayati Raj, North Eastern Regional Centre (NIRD &amp; PR, NERC). Senior officers of the rural development and panchayati raj departments, the Arunachal State Rural Livelihoods Mission, and the SIRD &amp; PR are attending it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, May 2: Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Secretary Rinchin Tashi said the state government has made it mandatory for all government departments and agencies to adopt the Government e-Marketplace (GeM) for procuring goods and services. Addressing the inaugural session of a two-day state level orientation programme on GeM here on Thursday, Tashi stressed on [&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-66036","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\/66036","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=66036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}