The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) on Thursday invited Amazon and Flipkart, amongst different gamers to have a joint dialogue on the continuing points round on-line commerce within the nation and make suggestions on the e-commerce coverage, which is at the moment underneath the draft stage. The merchants’ physique mentioned that the it invited e-commerce firms for the joint assembly referred to as ‘Seedha Samwad’ (direct dialog) in affiliation with different commerce associations, specifically India Cellular & Electronics Association (ICEA), All India Consumer Products Distributors Association (AICPDF), All India Mobile Retailers Association (AIMRA), All India Jewelers and Goldsmith Federation (AIJGF), and the Computer Media Dealers Association (CMDA).
Scheduled for January 27, the assembly will happen in New Delhi, CAIT mentioned in a press assertion.
The assembly is aimed to have a “broad unanimity” on “basic fundamentals of e-commerce business” among the many stakeholders to supply inputs to the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) for the e-commerce coverage, CAIT National President BC Bhartia and Secretary General Praveen Khandelwal mentioned.
Bhartia and Khandelwal additionally clarified that CAIT is “not averse to e-commerce or any e-commerce company but of the strong view that law of the land and the policies must be complied with both letter and spirit.”
The checklist of invitees for the joint dialog contains e-commerce websites together with Amazon, Flipkart, Firstcry, Paytm, Shopclues, and Snapdeal, amongst others. It additionally contains firms together with BigBasket, Grofers, Swiggy, and Zomato. The invite has additionally been despatched to corporates together with Reliance and Tata in addition to international gamers similar to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Zoom, and WhatsApp, the merchants’ physique mentioned.
CAIT additionally invited platforms similar to Mastercard, Visa, Rupay, Cleartrip, Naukri.com, Udaan, Healthkart, 1mg, Ola, Uber, Carwale, Firstcry, IRCTC, Hungama.com, Gaana.com, Oyo, Urban Ladder, UrbanClap, Byju’s, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Zee5, Disney+ Hotstar, Voot, ALTBalaji, JioCinema, and SonyLIV, amongst others working their enterprise actions by means of digital mode.
The merchants’ physique additionally invited associations together with the Federation of Small and Medium Enterprises (FISME), Retailers Association of India (RAI), Indian Banks Association (IBA), National Farmers Federation (NFA), Association of Cinema Theaters, and the National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI), amongst others. Further, company retailers together with Big Bazaar, Shoppers Stop, and V Mart are additionally invited to the assembly, CAIT conveners mentioned.
In invitation letters addressed to Amazon Country Manager for India Amit Agarwal and Flipkart CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy, the copies of that are with Gadgets 360, CAIT famous that the deliberation of the assembly will probably be conveyed to Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal and different involved officers.
“Since there exist differences among e-commerce stakeholders about the conduct of online business in the country, it is thought advisable to have a face-to-face discussion to bring broad unanimity on basic fundamentals of e-commerce business among the stakeholders in the larger interest of e-commerce trade,” the invitations despatched to the executives mentioned.
The assembly will both be held nearly or bodily — relying on the COVID-19 norms by the federal government. Amazon and Flipkart did not remark to request for a touch upon the invite on the time of submitting this text.
The newest transfer by CAIT comes simply days after it filed a petition earlier than the Competition Commission of India (CCI) looking for to terminate the switch of Cloudtail dad or mum Prione Business Service’s stakes to Amazon. The New Delhi-based merchants’ affiliation additionally lately announced that it could launch a marketing campaign referred to as ‘Vyapari Samvad’ (dealer dialog) all through February. It is aimed to debate the “threat to the existence of business of traders due to the current form of e-commerce and several other problems” within the nation.
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