Union Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah e-launched the onboarding of cooperatives on the Government e-Marketplace (GeM) portal in New Delhi, Delhi. The GeM portal comes under which ministry?

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Explanation: Union Minister Amit Shah, Ministry of Cooperation, e-launched the onboarding of cooperatives on the Government e-Marketplace (GeM) portal in New Delhi, Delhi. The programme was organized by the Ministry of Cooperation, the National Cooperative Union of India (NCUI), and GeM. • A total of 589 cooperatives have been selected as being eligible for onboarding on GeM. i. GeM is a one-stop portal that offers economies of scale by facilitating online procurement of goods and services and the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI) launched the GeM in 2016 to create an open and transparent procurement platform for government buyers.