New Delhi, Nov 28 (KNN) Government eMarketplace (GEM) will soon introduce boat and vessel service for managing supply, manning, operation and maintenance of the required boats, reported Financial Express.

After removing thousands of unpopular categories earlier this year, the government-backed e-commerce portal is considering to expand its offerings.

The portal in a tweet said, “You will now be able to hire boats through GeM! After a series of new services being added, GeM is now preparing to launch hiring of boat and vessel service on its portal soon.”

Its latest addition were language services for interpretation and translation work, professional manpower services including administration, accounts, human resources and more.

As of November 27, 2022 out of nearly 11,000 categories, 10,738 were product categories and only 269 were service categories on GeM.

It is offering 29.39 lakh products and 2.33 lakh services respectively.   (KNN Bureau)