India: Commerce Ministry To Shut Down Government’s 100-Year-Old Procurement Arm This Fiscal

09 Aug, 2017: An over 100-year-old government procurement arm, the Directorate General of Supplies and Disposals (DGS&D), will be shut down this fiscal year, Press Trust of India has reported, adding that the commerce ministry has already started the process. "We are closing DGS&D. We would close it in this fiscal only. It is more than 100-year-old organisation," a commerce ministry official, ….