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Guidelines to address e-commerce-related grievances of retailers soon: DIPP
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Friday, 29 May, 2015, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Our Bureau, New Delhi
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fiogf49gjkf0d The Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP) on Thursday said that it was working on guidelines to address the issue of ongoing tug of war between e-commerce retailers and their counterparts in brick and mortar, clarifying that e-commerce retailers are hardly on government radar.
Its joint secretary Atul Chaturvedi while addressing an interactive session on “Ease of Doing Business and the Government Policy” under aegis of PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry clarified that 100% FDI could be availed through an automatic route in the defence sector for items delisted from the defence licensing recently to promote Make in India.
“With the recent reformative measures initiated by the government to facilitate ease of doing business in India has led to an increase of actual FDIs inflow to an extent of 40% between October 2014 and March 2015 as compared to the same period in the previous year. Such measures have also resulted into decrease of domestic corporate investments overseas by 86% during the same period. The actual FDIs in manufacturing have also gone up between 13% and 15% in October 2014 until March 2015,” said Chaturvedi.
Elaborating further on the issue of e-commerce retailers vis-à-vis those in brick and mortar, Chaturvedi said that the government was aware of the confrontational front between the two and would shortly address this through evolving guidelines though the FDI policy on this front was clear and lucid.
He, however, added categorically stating that the government is unlikely to regulate the e-commerce entities since clear cut policy on this front is in place but evolve guidelines to strike a balance between the two.
“De-licensing for close to 60% of defence related procurements has already been delisted to promote Make in India for all sections of industry including those of MSMEs and that 100% FDIs in them could be elicited through automatic route and facilitate defence production in India and that India Inc. should take its advantage,” he said.
The joint secretary also disclosed that the DIPP would finish the exercise of its rating on ease of doing business in all states of the country by August 2015 and accordingly accord the rating status which would facilitate higher volumes of FDIs in states that has created conditions conducive to receiving investments.
According to him, no state wants to leg behind in terms of receiving investments and healthy competition is growing among all states for FDIs to improve their economic and social lot.
In his welcome remarks, president PHD Chamber Alok B Shriram demanded tax concessions for MSMEs and made a pitch for lower rates of interest for them. He called for MSMEs participation in country’s defence production.
Among others who were present on the occasion were Anil Rajput, chairman retail, e-commerce & FMCG committee, PHD Chamber, and Saurabh Sanyal, secretary- general.
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