{"id":221454,"date":"2023-01-07T19:55:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T14:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=221454"},"modified":"2023-01-07T19:55:30","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T14:25:30","slug":"to-boost-make-in-india-centre-flags-unfair-tender-norms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/to-boost-make-in-india-centre-flags-unfair-tender-norms\/","title":{"rendered":"To boost \u2018Make in India\u2019, Centre flags unfair tender norms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cTo boost \u2018Make in India\u2019, Centre flags unfair tender norms\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in <\/span><b>The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 6th January 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Union government has flagged over a dozen restrictive and discriminatory conditions which prevented local suppliers from participating in bidding processes initiated by its various departments and Ministries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These conditions were in violation of the Public Procurement-Preference to Make in India (PPP-MII) Order,2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>About the Public Procurement-Preference to Make in India (PPP-MII) Order, 2017<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Public Procurement-Preference Order of 2017 was issued to promote domestic value addition in public procurement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The policy provided for purchase preference to domestic manufacturers and service providers who complied with local content requirements in public procurement activities over entities merely importing to trade or assemble items.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are the restrictive conditions highlighted by the government in the PPP-MII Order, 2017?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Government of India has highlighted over a dozen restrictive and discriminatory conditions which prevented local suppliers from participating in bidding processes initiated by its various departments and Ministries.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For instance, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-Foreign technical standards like \u201cminus 25-degree temperature compatibility\u201d for certain equipment procured for airports were incorporated to eliminate \u2018Make in India\u2019 products.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-Excessive turnover requirement as a pre-qualifying criterion, insisting on the specific experience of supplying products to other nations such as export to G-8 countries, were among other conditions that prevented the local manufacturers from taking part in the procurement process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-In the procurement of IT, electronic and electrical products, foreign brands specify either for finished products or for part of scope of work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cTo boost \u2018Make in India\u2019, Centre flags unfair tender norms\u201d published in The Hindu on 6th January 2023 What is the News? The Union government has flagged over a dozen restrictive and discriminatory conditions which prevented local suppliers from participating in bidding processes initiated by its various&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/to-boost-make-in-india-centre-flags-unfair-tender-norms\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">To boost \u2018Make in India\u2019, Centre flags unfair tender norms<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-221454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}