DPIIT is developing the framework, working alongside companies that help connect local shops with consumers, and distributors and logistics providers NEW DELHI : The government department in charge of physical retail is working with traders’ bodies, startups, companies that help digitize small businesses and logistics firms to help ease supply-chain bottlenecks for neighbourhood kirana stores that have been working heroically amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The department for promotion of industry and internal trade (DPIIT) is developing the framework, working alongside companies that help connect local shops with consumers, and distributors and logistics providers.