Tribal arts and crafts will soon be sold on an exclusive Amazon-like e-marketplace

A trial run of the e-marketplace will be held from July 30 to August 14.

GeM has just 0.04 per cent MSMEs on board

The B2B platform was formed two years back and MSMEs were offered an opportunity to sell their products through the platform.

Xgenplus ensures that on-premises email services become an essential and integral part of every unit handled by the Government of India.

Sources said that the finance ministry has also sought an year wise detail of expenditure on advt in newspapers and magazines by each ministry.

According to official sources, eight selected presentations prepared by the officers were shown to the Prime Minister.

Use of government's e-marketplace by central and state departments would also help save taxpayers' money.

New Manual on Procurement of Goods has been extensively revised in keeping with GFR 2017.