Jammu Kashmir Trade Promotion Organization organized onboarding
drive on ONDC Network to revolutionise
the E commerce in J&K
Jammu and Kashmir Trade Promotion
Organisation (JKTPO) under the aegis of Industries and commerce department
organized and supervision of Khalid Jahangir, Managing Director , J&K Trade
Promotion Organisation organised an Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) on-boarding drive at Udyog
Bhawan, Jammu with ONDC Seller Partner MyStore to
assist on-boarding of sellers, artisans, retailers, small merchants, and
traders on their platform through which they can sell their product on ONDC
Network.
ONDC is
being established as a first of its kind initiative globally to pave the way
for reimagining digital commerce in India and establishing a globally
replicable model for digital commerce. This will be an open network with
established registries, enabling wide-scale participation by digital commerce
ecosystem players in India through multiple gateways.
Mr. Banu Singh, Vice President Sales MyStore highlighted
various benefits participant can avail and functionality of the platform. He also emphasised that MyStore
won’t be charging any onboarding and subscription fee to J&K based sellers.
ONDC platform is currently operating in 236 cities across India, including
Jammu and Kashmir.
Seller partner of ONDC MyStore had one-to-one networking sessions with
participants and onboarded them on the seller platform. All the sellers were
facilitated by MyStore team for onspot registration and onboarding. About 20 companies/sellers were onboarded on the spot
and rest of the participants understood the process of onboarding and will be
registering their digital catalogues subsequently. Categories onboarded were
Food and Beverages, Handloom and Handicrafts, Groceries and Home Décor.The
Platform aims to create new opportunities, curb digital monopolies in e-commerce
sectors.
The workshop received good response from local sellers
and entrepreneurs. This
onboarding drive is in line of the planned events
to be held across the UT for the promotion of E-commerce and attract the
local entrepreneurs of J&K towards digitalisation. The similar
onboarding drive will also be held in Pampore on 31st May 2023 at
JKEDI for stakeholders of Kashmir Division.