Commerce Ministry invites bids for white paper on DGFT

New Delhi, May 5 (KNN) The Commerce Ministry has again called for bids from global consultants to prepare a white paper on the functioning of the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT),Parliament for informed today.

The Department of Commerce had invited request for proposal (RFP) from consultancy firms for preparing a white paper to identify key policy and regulatory objectives related to the functioning of the DGFT.

"Since no response was received till April 11, which was the last date of submission of the proposal, the RFP has been floated again. The last date for submission of the proposal is May 13," Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.

Sitharaman said that as part of the ongoing review of functioning of the DGFT, many procedures and processes are being streamlined in order to facilitate ease of doing business for the exporters.

In a separate reply, she said the government has released Rs 42.29 crore under the Marketing Development Assistance (MDA) scheme and Rs 127.42 crore under the Market Access Initiative (MAI) to the export promotion councils in 2015-16.