ADDC Mohd Ashraf Bhat encourages participants to avail benefits of e-commerce.
Bandipora, Jul 30: As a part of ongoing e-commerce onboarding drive, Jammu and Kashmir Trade Promotion Organization (JKTPO) along with the District Administration Bandipora and leading e-commerce players achieves one more milestone in strengthening and boosting economic growth in the region by hosting e-commerce onboarding drive at conference Hall, DC Office, Bandipora.
The main aim of the drive is reaching out at grassroot level to promote local products and aware entrepreneurs/artisans regarding the benefits of selling products on the e commerce platforms and to expand their operations in the global market. The drive is in line of the planned drives to be held across the UT for the onboarding of local products on e-commerce platform.
The event witnessed active participation of more than two hundred unemployed and self help grup workers including women entrepreneurs, retailers, artisans, exporters, growers and FPO. The event highlighted the advantages of onboarding on e-commerce platforms and encouraged the participants to join the online market place.
During this drive around 15 participants were registered on-spot free of cost from various sectors and the rest started the process of onboarding. The drive included detailed sessions by the experts on benefits of selling products on e commerce platforms.
The programme was presided by ADDC Bandipora Mohammad Ashraf Bhat (JKAS), Bandipora who gave insights into the e commerce network and highlighted the numerous benefits of joining the platform besides redressing the grievances on the participants on the spot. He further requested all the participants to take more and more participation in similar activities.He urged the participants to avail maximum benefits by switching over to e commerce. DIO Bandipora was also present on the occasion.
State Tax Officer Bandipora Meeraj Wani also briefed about the GST, its importance for doing any online business and the registration process through a power point presentation.
In addition to this, Participants from various sectors exhibited their products and shared their success stories with the forum.
Earlier, representatives from JKTPO welcomed all the participants in the event and highlighted the importance of ODOP and DEH initiatives and the advantages of onboarding the products on e-commerce platform.
