CAIT urges Govt to implement reforms in e-commerce sector

New Delhi, Oct 4 (KNN) The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) hosted a two days meeting discussing e-commerce landscape and retail trade of India in the presence of 152 prominent trade leaders from 28 states of the country.

They have requested the Government to continue its reform process in e-commerce and retail trade sector of the country without caring for the pressure tactics of big e-tailers who are bent upon in destroying the domestic trade of the Country.

Bhartia and Khandelwal also informed that in the meeting it was also decided that if the rules are not implemented by 10th November, then soon after that a National Digital Rath campaign will hit the streets and will be launched from Uttar Pradesh.

CAIT's National President B C Bhartia and Secretary General Praveen Khandelwal said that in an another resolution passed in the meeting, Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal has been urged to enforce the rules proposed in the Consumer Act to foreign companies without giving any escape route to the big e-commerce companies by 10th November.

In a unanimous resolution passed at the two days meeting of the council it was strongly reiterated that foreign funded e-commerce companies are openly violating the rules and laws of the country, but no action has been taken by any government department so far.

The proposed rules under Consumer Protection Act have been made but they have not been implemented and have been entangles in discussion and consideration which gives an impression that somewhere some pressure is working on the government, whereas every day the traders of the country are in dire situation due to unhealthy business practices of these foreign companies.

In case the rules are not enforced, the traders of the country will be compelled to launch a nationwide movement not only for implementation of rules but also implementing an e-commerce policy and a fresh Press Note in place of Press Note No.2 of the FDI Policy,2018.

The Rath Yatra has been named "Bharat Vyapar Kranti Rath" Yatra which will be run in every district, cities and villages of all the states of the country and the people across the country will be informed about the consequences of the malpractices of this foreign giants and how they are trying to make us their slave.

They added that this campaign will be run across the country under a slogan "Bharat Ka Vyapar Hamara Hai-Sampurn Kranti Ab Nara Hai". A series of Digital Rath digital will roam in all the states of the country. About 40 thousand trade associations and crores of traders will take part in this massive Digital Rath Yatra. Meanwhile, the Halla Bol campaign on E Commerce of the CAIT which was to run in the country till October 15, will now be run across the country till November 10.

They added that a committee has been constituted under the leadership of Brajmohan Agarwal, Senior National Vice President of CAIT, to conduct this campaign across the country. Sanjay Gupta from Uttar Pradesh, Suresh Patodia from Rajasthan, Sachin Nivgune from Maharashtra, R P Khaitan, West Bengal, Ramesh Gupta from Madhya Pradesh, Prakash Baid from North Eastern States, Pramod Bhagat from Gujarat, Neeraj Anand from J&K, Vikram Raja from Tamil Nadu, M. Shivashankar from Pondicherry, Ashok Verma from Bihar, Suresh Sonthalia from Jharkhand and Jeetu Doshi from Chattisgarh will be the members of this committee.