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ONDC completes four years, expands reach across India's digital commerce ecosystem
India's digital public infrastructure Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) has completed four years since its launch, marking a significant milestone in India's efforts to democratise e-commerce and build an open, inclusive digital marketplace.
Logistics-as-a-service on ONDC hits 1 million transactions in June
A significant proportion of the on-network logistics orders are also currently being fulfilled by Ola, said ONDC. Players like Pidge, Loadshare, Shadowfax, Adloggs and Zypp have recorded more than 50 per cent month-on-month growth, it said.
ONDC to add banks, fintechs to take credit services to last mile
The homegrown Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) will soon integrate banks such as HDFC Bank, IDFC First Bank and Karnataka Bank, alongside fintech companies like Fibe, sources told us. This comes as the network began early pilots for credit disbursal through its platform, by partnering with Tata Group superapp Tata Neu and Paisabazaar.
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ONDC completes more than 7.1 million cumulative orders in February since inception a year ago
ONDC crossed 6.75 million cumulative orders in January. The network now has more than 370,000 sellers and service providers, from top brands to farmers and taxi drivers.
Govt says 5,000 Farmer Producer Organizations onboarded on ONDC
Around 5,000 FPOs have joined the ONDC portal, accessing market, digital marketing, online payment, business transactions. The central scheme aims to register 10,000 FPOs, improving production, rural economy, and providing job opportunities, financial assistance, credit guarantee facility.
ONDC logs meteoric rise; challenges are climbing fast too
ONDC – one of the biggest bets by New Delhi as far as its array of digital public goods are concerned – was floated with an aim to decentralise ecommerce in the country and bring more small sellers and buyers from across the nation to the digital medium.
Rs 17,000 crore under PM-KISAN released by PM Modi will benefit farmers from across the country: Tripura CM Manik Saha
Under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme, the 14th instalment amounting to approximately Rs 17,000 crores was directly transferred to more than 8.5 crore beneficiaries, offering much-needed financial support to farmers.
Farm to Fork: How ONDC is giving nationwide visibility to FPOs
The ONDC recently made news over competition it posed to Zomato and Swiggy and the flurry of new users signing up to the year-old platform. Now the network is looking to bring the fringe to the centre—a small beginning has been made by onboarding as many as 597 FPOs with 601 products.
A year on, ONDC clocks more than 11,000 retail orders per day
ONDC went beta live in some pin codes of Bengaluru on September 30, and has since expanded across Bengaluru and added Meerut to the beta phase.
Exclude ecommerce firms whose main platforms don’t onboard ONDC: Piyush Goyal
The minister also invited big and small retailers to join the network as it would help to create huge opportunities for everyone.
ONDC gearing up for next phase of growth, formal launch this year: Official
Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal held a meeting this week to take stock of the progress of ONDC. ONDC has been touted as a Unified Payments Interface-type protocol that would democratise the e-commerce businesses by onboarding millions of small retailers of the country.
ONDC to sign MoU with MP government on Tuesday
Other aspects of the MoU involves onboarding existing private players with digital platforms to increase local adoption, sprint programming and software development events such as a hackathon, state government nominating a department and a senior functionary to coordinate with ONDC.
ONDC evaluating solutions to add more regional languages
In June, Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal had also said ONDC should be made available in regional languages.
With NABARD's help, ONDC can onboard the entire Indian farm value chain including mandis: Piyush Goyal
Goyal was speaking virtually at the launch of a three-day Grand Hackathon of ONDC and NABARD where early stage startups will participate and solve two problem statements to bring ecommerce to agri tech.
ONDC can onboard entire farm value chain: Piyush Goyal
Goyal was speaking virtually at the launch of a three-day grand Hackathon of ONDC and Nabard where early-stage startups will participate in solving problems for bringing ecommerce to agriculture technology. Winners stand to get rewards worth ₹1.2 crore at the Hackathon.
Doubling farmers' income top priority for govt: Piyush Goyal
"Farmers, farmers' welfare ... doubling their income has been a top priority for this government," Commerce and Industry Minister Goyal said speaking at an event of Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) and National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD).
Govt gears up to take on Flipkart, Amazon
The meeting reviewed the status of the pilot launched since April 29, 2022 and discussed plans for faster rollout of the ONDC platform to a larger number of traders, categories of goods, geographies and companies.
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