Piyush Goyal calls for strong legal and punitive actions against fraudulent activities on GeM portal

Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal has called for strong legal and punitive actions against fraudulent activities on Government e Marketplace- GeM portal. The Minister said this while reviewing the progress of GeM in New Delhi. He said, in addition to detecting anomalies, GeM also plans to use Artificial Intelligence-Machine Learning to make proactive feature simplifications and product suggestions to buyers to ensure informed decision-making and savings in public spendings. Mr. Goyal also stressed on the need to bring all public procurement online to promote economies of scale and social Inclusiveness. The Minister suggested bringing in end-to-end online fulfillment and payment for all transactions by buyers on GeM and to improve monitoring of delivery against timelines. Significant technical upgrades have been planned by GeM to enable cutting edge use cases and improve user experience on the platform.