India Post on Tuesday inked a pact with the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) and Tripta Technologies for offering logistics assist to small merchants, and outlined plans to onboard the ONDC platform as a logistics service supplier.
India Post signed an MoU with the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) and Tripta Technologies within the presence of Minister of State for Communications Devusinh Chauhan on Tuesday.
The pact facilitates the operationalisation of the ‘Bharat EMart’ portal, which is able to present the power of pick-up of consignments from the premises of merchants and guarantee supply on the doorsteps of the consignees throughout the nation.
An estimated eight crore merchants related to CAIT shall be benefitted from the settlement, an official launch mentioned.
India Post within the current previous has entered into comparable agreements with the Government e-Marketplace (GeM) and Regional Centers of Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India Limited (TRIFED) to supply pick-up and supply of parcels on the doorsteps of the consignees.
India Post may even quickly onboard itself on the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) platform, being developed by the Ministry of Commerce as a logistics service supplier, the discharge added.
Chauhan famous that the Postal Department has reworked itself with the passage of time and the calls for of the general public and that technological induction and the addition of latest companies have made India Post a contemporary service supplier. Today, it gives banking, insurance coverage, and last-mile supply of advantages of a number of welfare schemes run by the federal government to each village via its community of 1.59 lakh put up places of work.
The minister expressed hope that the MoU with CAIT and Bharat e-Mart would supply much-needed logistics assist to small merchants within the nation, which might enhance their companies and employment alternatives.
