Dilli Bazaar e-portal to go live with 10,000 vendors in December
Author: BI Bureau
New Delhi: The Dilli Bazaar e-portal is all set to go live with 10,000 vendors in December. The Delhi Government will bring over one lakh shops of Delhi to the Dilli Bazaar portal within six months of launch and give them a 24 x 7 digital storefront. Talking about the project, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that Dilli Bazaar will be the first such portal in India where all of Delhi’s markets will be brought on a single platform and presented to the world. Every trader and retailer of Delhi will be able to display and sell their products to the world on Dilli Bazaar.”
Chief Minister Kejriwal on Tuesday chaired a high-level review meeting at the Delhi Secretariat to take stock of the progress of the Dilli Bazaar Project. Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia was also present during the meeting, along with other senior officials concerned. Under the Dilli Bazaar Project, the Delhi Government has envisioned a large-scale transformation of Delhi’s markets through digitization of each and every shop of Delhi.
The government plans to develop a unique virtual experience wherein one can have digital walkthroughs of Delhi’s iconic as well as local markets and browse through the products on offer. During the meeting, Dialogue and Development Commission of Delhi Vice Chairperson Jasmine Shah briefed the CM about the details about design and development of the portal and explained various features like product cataloguing, market location, geo-tagging, map layouts, e-payment and digital walkthroughs that will be made available through it.
The Dilli Bazaar team is also in discussion with e-commerce platforms to enable a feature wherein consumers of e-commerce platforms can purchase goods from Delhi’s shops through the Dilli Bazaar portal and make online payments from there. The government intends to make the Dilli Bazaar Portal’s products available on all e-commerce platforms with all e-payment options available for transactions. /BI/
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As the economy comes to a standstill amid the coronavirus-led lockdown, India’s agriculture sector has taken the baton of economic growth in its hands. The exports of agricultural commodities from March to June 2020 shot up by 23.24 percent on-year to Rs 25,552.7 crores, according to the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare. The government said that self-reliant agriculture is critical for the goal of an Atmanirbhar Bharat and for this, agricultural export is extremely important as besides earning foreign exchange for the country, the exports help farmers, producers, and exporters to take advantage of the wider international market and increase their income.
The surge in exports has also resulted in increased production in the farm sector by increasing coverage area and productivity. The share of India’s agricultural exports and imports in the world agriculture trade in 2017 was 2.27 percent and 1.90 percent, respectively. Even during the difficult time of pandemic lockdown, India took care not to disturb the world food supply chain and continued to export, the government said.
Ministry of Agriculture has prepared a comprehensive action plan for the promotion of Agri trade; the twofold approach focuses on boosting Agri Export with emphasis on value addition and action plan for Import Substitution. Recently, the Agriculture sector has witnessed a series of reforms, giving more choices to the farmers to sell their produce at competitive rates.
To mention a few, the Export strategy focuses on the export promotion of fast-evolving niche markets of Wellness food/ Health-conscious food/nutraceuticals, Development of “Brand India” in campaign mode to help penetration into new foreign markets and of new products which automatically translates into higher value realization, Gulf countries have been identified as focus destination to increase the market share which is a strong market for India though presently India caters to only 10-12% share of their total imports. A product-market matrix has been made containing a list of products of strength that could be expanded in new geographies and a list of known markets which can be introduced with newer products.
At the behest of the Department of Agricultural Cooperation & Farmers’ Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture, product-specific Export Promotion Forums have been created to lead Agri exports to new heights. Each Export Promotion Forum shall be having exporters of the related commodity as its members along with official members representing concerned Ministries/Departments of the Central and State Governments. Chairman APEDA shall be the chairman of each of these forums. The forums will meet at least once every two months, to discuss recommendations on issues pertaining to the export.
The recommendations of the forum will be placed in the product committee / Authority of APEDA. The Forum will keep in close contact with the concerned organization of the Ministry of Agriculture such as MIDH, Extension, NPPO, etc., DGFT, Ministry of Civil Aviation, MoFPI, etc. to further the interest of agricultural export.
