ONDC PILOT
AI was everywhere at GFF 2026. Full automation was not
Global Fintech Fest 2026 highlighted agentic AI's practical integration within the BFSI sector. Automation will handle basic tasks, but humans will retain final decision-making authority. Companies are focusing on specialised AI models and optimizing compute power for cost efficiency. Job roles are evolving, with a continued emphasis on hiring and upskilling employees.
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.
ONDC is bulking up financial services play with consumer-facing apps
Tata Group's super app Tata Neu and credit marketplace Paisabazaar are conducting pilot studies for credit disbursals through the ONDC network, with lenders like DMI Finance and Aditya Birla Finance already integrated.
Reliance Retail starts ONDC pilot via retail platform Fynd
Reliance Retail, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries, has begun testing the government's Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) through Fynd, an omnichannel retail platform in which Reliance holds an investment.
McDonald’s North & East onboards ONDC
McDonald's North and East partners with ONDC for exclusive products. ONDC also collaborates with street food vendors to boost small-scale operator demand. The initiative aims to enhance accessibility and customer reach.
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.
Government launches pilot in Himachal Pradesh to onboard fair price shops on ONDC
The Department of Food and Public Distribution under the commerce ministry has launched the pilot on ONDC in Himachal Pradesh. The ONDC pilot enables consumers in remote locations to access groceries and other essential products through the platform, while also helping fair price shops to increase their utilisation and revenue from market goods
Pilot to onboard fair price shops to ONDC launched in Himachal Pradesh
The pilot was launched by placing the first order on February 6 in 11 fair price shops in Himachal Pradesh - five in Una and six in Hamirpur district. The programme will be expanded across the state, and DFPD aims to subsequently cover the entire country. The pilot enables consumers in remote locations to access groceries and other essential products through ONDC, while also helping fair price shops to increase their utilisation and revenue from market goods.
In a first, fair price shops onboarded on ONDC
Sanjeev Chopra, Secretary of the Department of Food and Public Distribution, launched a pilot program to onboard fair price shops (FPSs) in Una and Hamirpur districts of Himachal Pradesh onto the Open Network Digital Commerce (ONDC), as part of the Digital India initiative. The virtual launch included 11 FPSs, marking the first time such shops have been onboarded on the ONDC platform.
Ola joins ONDC with food-delivery plugin
The Bengaluru-based startup has begun piloting with ONDC since August with an ‘ONDC Food’ feature newly embedded within the Ola app, multiple sources have told ET. The feature is currently in pilot phase and is open to Ola employees only.
ONDC to evaluate etailers based on commitment, says CEO Thampy Koshy
In April 2022, the network piloted a soft launch in five cities - Bengaluru, Delhi NCR, Shillong, Bhopal and Coimbatore. Since then, ONDC has also started a beta pilot in Bengaluru and in some tier-II cities.
ONDC targetting 5,000 transactions a day by March-end from current 200
ONDC is seeing significant adoption, with multiple enterprises coming together. More than 18,000 merchants across product categories of groceries, food and beverages, and home decor are live on ONDC in more than 150 towns and cities.
ONDC to publish dispute resolution draft
Open Network for Digital Commerce will seek stakeholder feedback on framework in 2 weeks.
Onboarding Flipkart, Amazon may provide ONDC scale and credibility: report
Onboarding some of the larger incumbents early might actually provide ONDC the much-needed scale as well as credibility with buyers and sellers, it said.
Logistics startup Grab.in integrates with government’s ONDC
While Reliance Retail-backed Dunzo is already on the ONDC as one of the logistics partners, Grab's entry marks Reliance's formal entry into the much-hyped network, pitched as a disruptor to break the dominance of ecommerce companies Amazon India and Walmart-owned Flipkart by bringing unorganised retailers online.
ONDC to be gradually expanded to more cities: Goyal
ONDC was launched in five cities in April - Delhi-NCR, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Shillong and Coimbatore.
ONDC to be gradually expanded to more cities: Piyush Goyal
"ONDC is going to be gradually scaled up because it's in beta testing (phase now). We would like to keep scaling it up to figure out how robust the technology is, how simple it is to operate, and the kind of capacities we will require for data storage and management of the entire process as we grow. So, it is still a work in progress," Goyal told PTI.
ONDC should be made available in regional languages: Piyush Goyal
ONDC CEO Thampy Koshy says over 150 entities have signed up on the network to integrate their apps.
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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