New Delhi: Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba has written to the Secretary of various ministries, revealing dissatisfaction with the quantum of local sources and procurements carried out by the government even though Prime Minister Narendra Modi insisted on the ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ program and ‘Make in India’ and ‘Make in India’ .
Gauba said it was observed that ‘Make In India’ was not followed in a letter and the Spirit when he directed the secretary of the key ministry to see the problem.
“It has been observed from the tender issued by various procurement entities in the CPP / Gem Portal (Public Product / Government) Portal PPP-MII (Public Preferences for Make In India) is not implemented in letters and spirits by several organizations,” said Gauba in its communication , the main source told toi.
The country’s top bureaucrat said “there was an instance” where the provisions of PPP-MII Order, 2017, were not even included in the tender.
“Excessive turnover, special brand / brand requirements, foreign certification requirements, previous unreasonable experience needs, and previous experience requirements to supply certain countries / entities, sometimes prescribed as qualification criteria,” said Gauba, highlighted several ways supplier Local rejected opportunities.
He said that the secretary must “suggest all the procurement entities” under their ministry / department to “ensure full compliance” from the PPP-MII command “in the letter and spirit”.
“You are also asked to review the implementation of the order and take all the actions / correction actions needed so that there is no deviation.” PPPMII orders are issued by the Industry and Trade Promotion Department (DPIIT) to encourage ‘making in India’ and promoting manufacturing and production of goods, services, and working domestically to increase income and work.
However, industry and especially small and medium enterprises have often complained that they generally do not come out of large businesses, where foreign vendors are preferred.
For example, in the telecom ministry tender for large projects for cellular communication and install networks in the northeastern region, left-wing extremists (LWE), and Andaman & Nicobar, there have been examples of local companies that are rejected opportunities.
“Often operators who win tenders only work with their foreign vendors to buy telecommunications infrastructure.
They are believed to have business settings with these partners and thus not entertaining local suppliers, even though they have low-cost technology that is suitable for our field, “A vendor said, asking for anonymity.
Telecom equipment and export service board promotion Board (TEPC) Sandeep Aggarwal said the criteria of ‘past experience’ are often used to maintain domestic suppliers.
The problem was previously marked by the Minister of Trade Piyush Goyal also who wrote to several ministries, complaining that the domestic industry was often ignored.