ONDC may remove e-commerce firms not joining with main app

The government-promoted Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) may remove the e-commerce firms which don’t join the network through their main apps, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Tuesday.

Speaking at ‘Enabling Bharat 2.0’ workshop, Goyal asked ONDC’s chief executive officer T Koshy to “exclude those e-commerce platforms which are not coming to the network with their main platforms.”

“Some are building ONDC-specific platforms. That’s not our aim,” the minister said.

Earlier this month, PhonePe launched an ONDC-specific app called Pincode. The app was launched in Bengaluru on April 4. It is currently available in Bengaluru but Walmart-owned PhonePe plans to expand Pincode app to other cities as well.