One District One Product Promoted on GeM portal
Source: Times of India
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Overview
- About One District One Product
- How does the promotion help?
- What is a Government e-marketplace?
Why in News?
The Central government recently decided to promote One District One Product (ODOP) on Government e-Marketplace (GeM), an online public procurement platform.
About One District One Product
- ODOP aims to increase the procurement, common services and marketing of products.
- There may be more than one cluster of ODOP products in one district.
- Also there may be a cluster of ODOP products consisting of more than one adjacent district in a State.
- An ODOP product could be a perishable agricultural product, a cereal-based product, or a food item that is widely produced in a district and its supporting industries.
- Products include mango, potato, litchi, tomato, tapioca, kinnu, bhujia, petha, papad, pickle, millet-based products, fisheries, poultry, meat etc.
- More focus should be on processing Agri products in order to reduce wastage, proper assaying, and storage and marketing.
- The ODOP approach of the scheme would lead to easing in providing common facilities and other support services.
How does the promotion help?
- It would brisk business across government departments and PSUs and spread the network of GeM to the state level.
- Products like handicrafts and pottery (Moradabad brass and Khurja pottery) are expected to be pushed in festivals for corporate gifting.
- Nearly 350 categories have been created on GeM and estimated purchases of ODOP products and farmer producer organisations (FPOs) could be Rs 878 crore.
- Orders made by the government include Robusta coffee from Wayanad (Kerala), Pattachitra products from Puri, Saharanpur woodcraft and silk sarees from Bhagalpur.
What is a Government e-Marketplace ?
- Government e-Market Place hosted by the Directorate General of Supplies and Disposals where common user goods and services.
- GeM is a user-friendly portal for making procurements by Government officers.
- Public procurement forms a very important part of Government activity and reform in Public Procurement.
Public procurement refers to the process by which governments and state-owned enterprises purchase goods and services from the private sector.
- It aims to transform the way in which procurement of goods and services is done by the Government Ministries and Departments, Public Sector Undertakings and other apex autonomous bodies of the Central Government.
- Transparency in Procurement
- GeM eliminates human interface in vendor registration, order placement and payment processing, to a great extent.
- GeM is a completely paperless, cashless and system-driven e-marketplace.
- National eGovernance Division (Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology) has developed a GeM portal for the procurement of both Products and services.
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