An e-commerce platform may soon come up for small grocery stores, so that they can take online orders. The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) and the Small Retailers Group Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) are together establishing an e-commerce platform. This platform will help in taking online orders by local grocery stores and making the goods reach the customer.

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In a media release issued by CAIT in its statement, the organization said that apart from DPIIT and CAIT, other promoters of this market place are Startup India, Invest India, All India Consumer Products Distributors Association and Avon Capital. According to the report of Economic Times, the release states that the e-commerce portal will be for seven crore merchants of the country.

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The release said that all manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers and retailers and consumers of domestic business sectors will be an integral part of this e-commerce platform. "In the current coronavirus crisis, the population of India's tier 2 and 3 cities, which were heavily dependent on these grocery stores, are now facing challenges," the release said. DPIIT and CAIT are working on the national e-commerce marketplace to deal with this situation. This platform is not just to deal with the current crisis, but is a permanent platform to digitalize the existing business of the entire business community of the country.

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