Government eMarketplace (GeM) crosses 40-lakh-seller mark

By

Maverick Martins

Published
Apr 11, 2022

The Government eMarketplace (GeM) has crossed the 40-lakh-seller mark after onboarding over 30 lakh sellers in the last five months on the back of growing registrations from the medium and small enterprises.

GeM was launched in August 2016 and had registered its first 10 lakh sellers in four years. It attributed the rise in seller base to the Udyam portal which is integrated with the marketplace,

“Most of these new registrations are because of integration with Udyam portal since 2020. So, whosoever is coming onto the Udyam portal is directly put onto the GeM portal as well. Hence, not all sellers, who opt for simultaneous GeM registration, might be selling on the marketplace,” Prashant Kumar Singh CEO of GeM told Financial Express Online.

“GeM is currently sifting through its inactive sellers, which automatically got registered through their Udyam registrations, and looking to delist them. Apart from direct registration, there might be other sellers who perhaps have lost interest in selling on GeM. Removing such sellers would make active sellers more visible on the platform with more opportunities to sell to the government,” Singh added.

Government departments and schools have purchased goods form the GeM platform, which was launched by the Commerce Ministry in 2016. The platform currently has close to 15,000 product categories.