{"id":949728,"date":"2025-07-25T09:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T04:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=949728"},"modified":"2025-07-25T10:17:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T04:47:17","slug":"no-threat-to-indian-msmes-from-allowing-uk-companies-in-govt-procurement-sunil-mittal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/25\/no-threat-to-indian-msmes-from-allowing-uk-companies-in-govt-procurement-sunil-mittal\/","title":{"rendered":"No threat to Indian MSMEs from allowing UK companies in Govt procurement: Sunil Mittal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London [UK], July 25 (ANI): Addressing concerns over UK companies entering India&#8217;s Government Procurement (GP) space under the new India-UK FTA, Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, said the move will ultimately benefit Indian MSMEs, as UK firms will need to establish manufacturing units in India to remain competitive, benefiting India&#8217;s MSMEs. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking exclusively to the ANI, Mittal acknowledged that while UK companies can now participate in government procurement, there is a threshold above which they can bid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London [UK], July 25 (ANI): Addressing concerns over UK companies entering India&#8217;s Government Procurement (GP) space under the new India-UK FTA, Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, said the move will ultimately benefit Indian MSMEs, as UK firms will need to establish manufacturing units in India to remain competitive, benefiting India&#8217;s MSMEs. Speaking exclusively to the ANI, Mittal acknowledged that while UK companies can now participate in government procurement, there is a threshold above which they can bid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}