Last Seminar:

IRILMM’s organised 2-days Seminar on “Overview of GFR and Public Procurement through GeM” (With Latest Amendments) held on 06-07 March 2025 at ‘Maple’ Conference Hall, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi. The seminar was inaugurated and conducted by Sh Bhaskar Narang, DG/IRILMM & Course Director; Sh Gajanand Prasad, ED/IRILMM. There were 42 participants from PSUs/Pvt. and Railways.

TOPICs Covered: Fundamental principles of Public Procurement, standards of financial prudence in Tender and Contracts under GFR-2017; Overview of GFR-2017 with policy perspective and latest amendments; Practical issues in Contracting; GTC, STC, SLA & use of AI in GeM Procurement; Practical perspective on MSME/MII Policy of Govt. of India; Demo on procedure & process of bidding, ordering, receipt and e-payments on GeM; Practical aspects of Procurement of Goods & Services through GeM portal; Procedure of incidence reporting on GeM; Issues in Procurement through GeM – an interaction session &amp

SPEAKERs: Bhaskar Narang, DG/IRILMM & ex-PED/MoR; Sanjay Aggarwal, Adviser/PPD, DoE, Ministry of Finance; Gajanand Prasad, ED/IRILMM, & ex-PCMM/NW Rly; Anuj Kumar, Director, GeM; Naveen Joshi, Dy. CMM/Izzatnagar, NE Rly; Prakash Mirani, CMO/Services/GeM

PARTICIPANTS FROM (PSUs/Others and RLYs):

PSUs/Others: Airport Authority of India; Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd.; Central Coalfields Ltd.; Central Electronics Ltd.; Directorate General Border Roads; Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Ltd.; Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd.; IFFCO Ltd.; Indian Navy, Eastern Naval Command/Visakhapatnam; National Housing Bank; NMDC Ltd.; Oil India Ltd.; & Rashtriya Chemical & Fertilizer Ltd.

RAILWAYs: Southern Railway; South Western Railway; East Central Railway; Banaras Locomotive Works; Integral Coach Factory.