'Official Think Tank is Tasked to Prepare National e-Commerce Policy, On an Open Deadline'

A Think Tank on ‘Framework for National Policy on e-Commerce’ was established by Department of Commerce and a Task Force under the Think Tank was set up for preparing recommendations for India’s National Policy on e-Commerce. Minister of State of Commerce and Industry, C. R. Chaudhary, informed this in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha.

The Task Force was further divided into 9 sub-groups. The first meeting of the Think Tank was held on 24^th April, 2018, meeting of the subgroups was held during 20^th - 22^nd June, 2018 and the first meeting of the Task Force was held on 6^th July, 2018.

Further, the second meeting of the Think Tank was held on 30^th July, 2018. Subsequent to the consultations held, Department of Commerce formulated a Draft policy document titled “Electronic Commerce in India: Stakeholder Recommendations Received for a National Policy Framework”.  Consequent to the change in Allocation of Business Rules, “Matters related to e-Commerce” has been transferred to the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion. The formulation of e-Commerce policy is under consideration of the Government, for which no timeline has been fixed.