Government E Marketplace and Women Entrepreneurs with Mr. Talleen Kumar, IAS, CEO GeM

A National Webinar was organised on a very important subject – Government E-Marketplace and Women Entrepreneurs. Government e-Marketplace (GeM) is an online public procurement portal which was primarily brought in with a focus to aid MSMEs for the procurement and selling of products. This portal aims to helps to decline the supply chain challenges for MSMEs and taking India a step ahead towards self-reliance.

Mr Talleen Kumar. IAS, CEO of GeM and his team highlighted salient aspects of the portal, how it functions and how women entrepreneurs can benefit from it.

“Of all procurements made by GeM, in the year 2019-20, about 61% were from MSMEs and women entrepreneurs & startups”, said Mr Kumar.