Traders’ body working with Centre to launch e-commerce portal

Traders’ body Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT), with the help of the Centre, is working on an e-commerce platform to enable local ‘kirana’ stores to take orders online and ensure last mile contactless delivery.

“This vast, purely Indian, e-commerce portal will make all efforts to on-board about seven crore traders of the country. Manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers and retailers of all verticals of domestic trade and consumers will be an integral part of this e-commerce platform,” said Praveen Khandelwal from CAIT, in a statement on Friday.

Apart from the Department for Promotion of Investments and Internal Trade (DPIIT), other promoters of the platform are Startup India, Invest India, All India Consumer Products Distributors Federation and Avana Capital, the statement said.