Last Seminar:

IRILMM’s organised 2-days Seminar on “Overview of GFR and Public Procurement through GeM” (With Latest Amendments) held on 22-23 May 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 31 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; Practical perspective on MSME/MII Policy of Govt. of India; Practical issues in contracting; GTC, STC, SLA & use of AI in GeM Procurement; Demo on procedure & process of bidding, ordering, receipt and e-payments on GeM; Procurement of services through GeM portal and challenges; Procedure of incidence reporting on GeM; Issues in Procurement – an interaction &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; R.S. Meena, Addl. CEO/GeM

PARTICIPANTS FROM (PSUs/Others and RLYs):

PSUs/Others: Directorate General Border Roads; Department of Telecommunications; Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd.; Indian Air Force/HQ Trg Command; Eastern Coalfields Ltd.; Airport Authority of India; GRIDCO Ltd.;

RAILWAYs: Central Railway; Eastern Railway; South East Central Railway; Banaras Locomotive Works; Chittaranjan Locomotive Works; Integral Coach Factory.