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43k MSEs benefitted from govt’s public procurement policy in FY21 so far; sold goods worth over Rs 8k cr

COVID-19, coronavirus, COVID-19 lockdown, coronavirus lockdown, micro enterprises, India recession, GAME, Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship, LEAD, Krea University Madan Padaki, Indian economy,The government had earmarked 25 per cent annual MSE procurement target for CPSEs from April 1, 2015, onwards up from 20 per cent earlier,

Trade, import and export for MSMEs: 90 central public sector enterprises (CPSE) have made 32.70 per cent of their overall procurement so far in FY21 from micro and small enterprises (MSEs) as on September 12, 2020, according to MSME Minister Nitin Gadkari. The CPSEs have bought goods and services worth Rs 27,120.58 crore from companies out of which Rs 8,869.75 crore worth of procurement has been made from 43,399 MSEs, Gadkari said in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha on Monday citing data from public procurement monitoring portal MSME Samadhaan.

Moreover, out of the total procurement from MSEs, the government enterprises have bought goods and services worth Rs 237.07 crore from 1,744 MSEs owned by scheduled caste and scheduled tribe entrepreneurs. On the other hand, procurement from women-led 1,045 MSEs as on September 12 stood at Rs 198.52 crore. The government had earmarked 25 per cent annual MSE procurement target for CPSEs from April 1, 2015, onwards up from 20 per cent earlier, according to the MSME Ministry’s website. Out of the 25 per cent target, a sub-target of 4 per cent from SC/ST owned MSEs and 3 per cent from women-owned MSEs were earmarked.

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Meanwhile, the online public procurement marketplace GeM, launched in August 2016 to enhance efficiency and transparency in the government buying process, has 1,23,251 MSE sellers out of overall 5,16,790 sellers. Currently, MSE sellers on GeM have a 57.91 per cent share in the total order value on the platform. So far, 46,16,716 orders have been placed on the portal even as transaction value stood at Rs 62,811 crore.

As transactions and number of sellers on the GeM portal continues to increase, the government had taken cognizance of the possibility of fake or poor quality products being sold on the platform. Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal had last month cautioned sellers against selling goods of inferior quality or charging high prices. The minister had warned that such sellers will be blacklisted not only from the GeM portal but from the “entire government ecosystem,” he had said during the e-National Public Procurement Conclave organised by GeM.

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