From Flipkart to Uber, startups unite to deliver essentials

Bengaluru: E-commerce, logistics and ride-hailing firms are putting in place several measures to ramp up capacity to deliver essentials to customers.

These include procuring permissions to stock food at their warehouses, use railway freight to move goods and cabs to enable last-mile deliveries.

Around 125 fulfilment centres and hubs of Walmart-owned e-commerce company Flipkart were certified to stock food items over the weekend, a senior government official told ET.

The approvals, provisional as of now, were expedited and will allow the company to move essential items such as packaged food through its network.