DPIIT sets-up advisory council for Open Network for Digital Commerce

New Delhi, Jul 6 (KNN) The government set up an Advisory Council for Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) by forming an advisory council comprising nine members including National Health Authority CEO RS Sharma and Infosys non-executive chairman Nandan Nilekani.

“An advisory council has been constituted to advise the government on measures needed to design and accelerate adoption of ONDC...” said an order issued by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT).

The ONDC, a project of the DPIIT assigned to the Quality Council of India (QCI), aims at promoting open networks developed on open-sourced methodology, using open specifications and network protocols independent of any specific platform.

Other members of the Advisory Council include RS Sharma, CEO, National Health Authority; Adil Zainulbhai, Chairman, QCI & Capacity Building Commission; Arvind Gupta, Co-Founder & Head, Digital India Foundation; Dilip Asbe, MD and CEO, National Payments Corporation India; Suresh Sethi, MD and CEO, National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL); Praveen Khandelwal, Secretary-General, Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) and Kumar Rajagopalan, CEO, Retailers Association of India.

DPIIT Additional Secretary shall be the Convener of the Advisory Council, the order added.