Technology for MSMEs: Women Development and Child Welfare minister Smriti Irani on Wednesday urged traders to engage girls in their e-commerce organizations, mentioned traders’ body Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) mentioned. Irani was addressing the traders at a conference organized by CAIT. The association mentioned Irani named for a joint campaign across the nation with her ministry and CAIT to market women’s security and entrepreneurship. “In this context, a meeting of selected trade leaders of the country with Smt. Smriti Irani will be held in the ministry on the 16th of July in which the strategy will be decided on conducting a joint campaign,” CAIT mentioned.
“Now a special campaign should be launched by the traders to make more and more women entrepreneurs in the country. From time to time, women have shown their ability by achieving heights in various fields, so why should the women lag behind in business and industry too,” CAIT cited Irani as saying through the occasion.
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Smriti Irani, who retained girls and youngster development ministry through the current PM Modi cabinet reshuffle, mentioned that shoppers have a unique bond with their ‘Pados ki Baniya Ki Dukan’ who aids them in all situations and if these shops started adopting modern day technologies in their current organization format, they are capable of providing competitors to any largest business in the world. “if the ‘Pados ki Baniye Ki Dukan’ in every street and corner of any city also does online business then foreign companies around the world will get a clear message that India is not the same country anymore where anyone can become East India Company,” the minister added according to CAIT.
Traders’ body had lately mentioned that the exploitation of e-commerce channel by means of unethical organization practices of on the net retailers in India has led to lakh of shops becoming forced to close. CAIT had also urged Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal to launch the e-commerce policy right away. The government had last month proposed amendments to Consumer Protection (E-commerce) Rules that indicated stricter compliance for e-commerce corporations such as Amazon, Walmart-owned Flipkart, and other folks who have constantly questioned by CAIT against their alleged organization malpractices.