New Delhi, May 9 (KNN) Public procurement portal Government eMarketplace (GeM) has partnered with India Post to enable sellers to book consignment shipping online via the GeM portal.

The portal’s integration with the most widely distributed postal system will eliminate manual intervention, making the process fully digital.

It will allow delivery in the remotest parts of the country and assist sellers to track their deliveries, said the government.

In March, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced that the government run eMarketplace crossed order vale of Rs 1 lakh crore. 

He also emphasised on the empowerment of MSMEs through the GeM platform with 57 per cent of order value coming from the sector.

The number of orders almost doubled from 55.74 lakh orders processed as of January 2021.

The portal was launched in August 2016 aa and has had processed 1,00,54,211 orders worth Rs 2.44 lakh crore from 60,074 government buyers including public sector units and government departments. (KNN Bureau)