The ONDC pilot project is currently live in 15 cities, including Delhi, Shillong, Coimbatore, Bhopal, Bengaluru, and Lucknow. By the end of August, the network had onboarded around 100 sellers.
The government has opened the Open Network For Digital Commerce (ONDC), its ambitious digital commerce project, for the public in Bengaluru. The move is a part of the network’s beta testing.
Union Minister of Commerce Piyush Goyal took to Twitter on Thursday (September 29) to make the announcement. “Beta testing of the Govt’s revolutionary Open Network For Digital Commerce to begin from tomorrow. It is democratic, cost-effective & empowers buyers and small businesses,” Goyal wrote in a tweet.
ONDC’s beta testing is live across 16 pin codes in Bengaluru. Media reports suggested that the beta launch would feature over 200 merchants working in grocery, food, and beverage segments. The network wants to collect feedback from public users to improve the user experience via the beta launch.
ONDC aims to reach around 100 cities, 30 Mn sellers, and 10 Mn vendors by the end of 2022. Earlier this month, Goyal said that the network would be opened for public use in 1-2 cities by the end of September. He was quoted in media reports as stating that the government wants to ensure that the network has sufficient capacity to handle large volumes.
The ONDC pilot project is currently live in 15 cities, including Delhi, Shillong, Coimbatore, Bhopal, Bengaluru and Lucknow. By the end of August, the network had onboarded around 100 sellers.
