Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has reiterated that Government e-Marketplace-GeM is the most transparent, accountable and efficient public procurement portal. <br/><br/>Addressing a press conference in New Delhi today, she said GeM has already resulted in savings of crores of rupees to the government. Ms Sitharaman strongly denied the charges levelled against GeM by the Congress Party as baseless, motivated and malafide. <br/><br/>Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala had recently levelled charges of irregularities against the GeM. <br/><br/>The Minister said the items for which Mr Surjewala had given GeM rates and e-Commerce portal rates are different items and they cannot be compared. On the contrary, GeM rates are much lower than the market rates. She said government has made a saving of over 100 Crore rupees in the total procurement of about 450 Crore rupees so far through GeM.<br/><br/>