Tomatoes will probably be offered by the National Cooperative Consumers’ Federation (NCCF) for the subsequent 10-15 days, ONDC managing director and CEO T Koshy mentioned within the nationwide capital on Friday. ONDC is a “socially conscious organisation” he mentioned including that the transfer will present publicity for the platform which is making an attempt to roll-out nationally after a number of pilots in cities throughout the nation.
“From tomorrow, you will get them at Rs 70 on our ONDC network,” he mentioned. Orders will probably be restricted to 2 kg per particular person, will probably be delivered the subsequent day and will probably be restricted to Delhi.
This comes after a serious blitzkrieg by ONDC earlier this yr the place its companions incentivised meals orders by the platform and customers from Zomato and Swiggy flogged to it to get cheaper burgers and different meals objects.
The NCCF has develop into a vendor app on the ONDC and can make the tomatoes accessible on the subsidised fee by it, whereas they are often purchased by purchaser apps on the community reminiscent of Paytm and MagicPin. The supply will probably be made by logistics providers firm Shadowfax.
While such service suppliers usually impose a sure % cost, within the case of the subsidised tomatoes and for a short lived foundation, a choice has been collectively taken not to take action as part of working with the federal government.
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“Only for the tomatoes, for the next 10-15 days, none of us are going to charge,” Koshy mentioned.ONDC and its companions will collectively bear the price. “We are all collectively trying to look at this, find a mechanism to do this,” Koshy mentioned.
In the wake of tomato costs spiking throughout the nation over the previous few weeks, the centre had requested the NCCF together with the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) to slash costs to rs 70 per kg.
ET reported on July 6 that ONDC is increasing to 5 extra cities which incorporates Mumbai, Delhi NCR (together with Noida, Gurgaon and Faridabad), Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata in a beta part.
Along with Bengaluru and Meerut, which went Beta stay in September 2022 and December 2022, respectively, the community is now accessible to consumers (shoppers) and sellers in these extra 5 cities. Consumers will be capable to buy from the sellers on the ONDC community by 4 lively purchaser functions — Paytm, Mystore, Spice Money, and Magicpin.
Currently, the community has greater than 40,000 sellers stay in additional than 200 cities, out of which greater than 18,000 sellers function from these 5 cities.
ONDC had its alpha rollout in April 2022 in 5 cities to check stay transactions with a closed group of sellers and consumers whereas progressively increasing its footprint.
Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com