India, Dec. 6 -- The target of Rs 5 trillion business through government's e-marketplace GeM is achievable in less than five years given the huge amount of procurement done via the platform, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Thursday.
GeM symbolizes a transparent and corruption free procurement system and it will unify all government procurement, across all ministries and departments of Union and state governments within a defined timeframe, Goyal said.
He was addressing the inaugural session of the 3rd edition of the National Public Procurement Conclave here.
"The target of Rs 5 trillion business through the GeM platform is achievable in less than five years. GeM should take a high jump and be now open to common man, s...