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FOIJ demands price/purchase preference for procurement of goods/works from local MSME units | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 15: Federation of Industries, Jammu (FOIJ) demanded price/purchase preference for procurement of goods/works from local MSME units by state/central government departments working in Jammu & Kashmir. Lalit Mahajan, Co-Chairman FOIJ and President Bari Brahmana Industries Association conveyed heartiest thanks to Manoj Sinha, Lt Governor, Arun Kumar Mehta, Chief Secretary, Atal Dulloo, Financial Commissioner, Finance Department & Ranjan Prakash Thakur Principal Secretary, Industries & Commerce department for the issuance Circular No. FD-Code/83/2021-03-729 dated 20-07-2021 by the virtue of which an Advisory issued by Finance Department to all the Administrative Secretaries to follow the GFR-2017 rules while issuing NITs and not show any requirement for particular BRANDS of material in the NITs, which is in violation of GFR and CVC guidelines for the Procurement of Goods /Works resulting great relief to the MSME sector of J&K for the supply of goods to government departments. It is pertinent to mention here that in past most of the government departments of J& K issued the NITs for the Procurement of Goods/Works with the “BRAND” Specific for the reason best known to the concerned Officials resulting denial of the participation of the Local MSME Units who are manufacturing the Quality Goods duly BIS marked as par with the outside suppliers at par with the requirement of the Department. Mahajan drew the attention of Lt Governor towards the plight of local MSME units suffering very badly due to step motherly treatment being given by the government departments while purchasing the goods in spite of the facts that the Local SSI Units willing to supply the goods at the lowest offer received from outside the state. |
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