The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) will soon place India’s draft e-commerce policy in the public domain to seek comments, according to DPIIT secretary Guruprasad Mohapatra. India had released a draft of such policy in February 2019 that had raised concerns among several foreign e-commerce firms over points related to data.
The earlier draft had proposed setting up a legal and technological framework for restrictions on cross-border data flow and had also laid out conditions for businesses regarding collection or processing of sensitive data locally and storing it abroad.The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) will soon place India's draft e-commerce policy in the public domain to seek comments, according to DPIIT secretary Guruprasad Mohapatra. India had released a draft of such policy in February 2019 that had raised concerns among several foreign e-commerce firms over points related to data.#
After releasing the draft last year, general elections followed and a lot of issues came up in the draft policy, Mohapatra was quoted as saying by a news agency.
It is now recognised that the country should have a definite, clear and coherent policy keeping in tune with the requirement of the society and service providers, he noted while addressing the Rajasthan STRIDE virtual conclave.
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