The government-backed Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) has achieved a milestone by completing more than 7.1 million cumulative orders in February since its inception in January last year.
In January, the ONDC surpassed 6.75 million cumulative orders. Of these, 3.56 million, accounting for 52.8%, were mobility orders, whereas 3.19 million, constituting 47.2%, were non-mobility orders.
The network currently boasts over 370,000 sellers and service providers, ranging from renowned brands to farmers and taxi drivers. Additionally, it is operational in 588 ‘countable cities’, encompassing approximately 70% of cities across India.
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The network defines countable cities as cities or districts with more than 100 orders per month in the last three months. Overall, ONDC has facilitated transactions in over 800 cities throughout India.
ONDC’s mobility service is currently active in seven cities: Bengaluru, Mysuru, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Delhi, Chennai, and Kochi. The inclusion of Chennai Metro train services into ONDC marks a significant stride towards achieving multimodal mobility through the network.
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Additionally, ONDC has commenced a pilot to onboard street food vendors in Delhi and Lucknow. The plan is to onboard 500 street food vendors in the next two months in both these cities followed by a nationwide scale-up with more seller and buyer apps. Seller apps onboard merchants while buyer apps are customer-facing apps on which orders are placed.
On February 22, three seller apps affiliated with the network—Ninjakart, Shiprocket, and Mystore—organized a seller onboarding program in Chhattisgarh. The event catered to 95 primary agricultural credit societies (PACS), eight farmers’ producer organizations (FPOs) and fish farmer producer organizations (FFPOs), seven dairy cooperatives, and five handloom cooperatives.
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