ONDC onboarding drive organised by JKTPO at Srinagar
Jammu and Kashmir Trade promotion Organisation
(JKTPO) organised on boarding drive of Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC)
at JKEDI, Pampore with ONDC Seller Partner E-Samudaayto assist onboarding of sellers, artisans, retailers, small merchants
and traders on their platform through which they can sell their product on ONDC
Network. This onboarding drive is the continuation of ONDC awareness
workshop organized in September in both divisions of Jammu &Kashmir.
In addition to providing e-commerce market
linkages to Jammu and Kashmir sellers, JKTPO is also assisting sellers from
Jammu and Kashmir in forging market linkages by participating in trade
fairs like ongoing 41stIndia International Trade Fair at Pragati
Maidan, New Delhi, CII Agro Tech in Chandigarh, India GI Fair, 2022 at Greater
Noida.
ONDC is being established as a firstofitskind
initiative globally to pave the way for reimagining digital commerce in India
and establishing a globally replicable model for digital commerce. This will be
an open network with established registries, enabling wide-scale participation
by digital commerce ecosystem players in India through multiplegateways. On
boarding of stakeholders also initiated with the workshop which enables J&K
to take lead among other states/UT’s to be part of digital revolution with
access to market linkages for sellers of J&K all over India.
The onboarding drive was led by Mr Sagar
Krishna,Head Customer success E-Samadaay , ONDC Seller Side partnerwho gave brief presentation on the benefits of getting
onboarded on this digital platform and the working
of ONDC network was explained and demonstrated in detail. He also announced
E-Samadaaywon’t be charging any onboarding and subscription fee to J&K
based sellers for first three months afteronboarding.
Seller partners of ONDC,E-Samudaayhad aone to
one networking sessions with participants and onboarded them on the seller platform.
This onboarding drive was attending by women entrepreneurs, small
entrepreneurs, E-Commerce companies, retailers and artisans of UT. About70
participants participated in this drive.All the sellers were facilitated by JKTPO
Team and E-Samudaay team for onboarding.20 local companies/sellers were
onboardedon spotand rest of the participantsinitiated theprocess of onboarding and
will be registering their digital catalogues soon.Categories onboarded were
Food and Beverages, Handloom and Handicrafts, Groceries and Home Décor.
During onboarding drive, entrepreneurs
acknowledge efforts from Jammu and Kashmir Trade Promotion Organization for
providing market linkages to them, one of the entrepreneurs, Adnan Ali Khan-Al
Kareem Souq Pvt Ltd stated “that onboarding on ONDC platform will help us to
have Pan India presence with nominal charges and thanked JKTPO.”
Another entrepreneur Aftab Ahmad of Saffron
Mart thanked JKTPO for organizing this onboarding drive which will help
entrepreneurs to sell their product across India.
Similar onboarding drive will also be held in
Jammu on 9th December 2022 for stakeholders of Jammu.