100 cities in six months: Govt's ambitious ONDC pilots today

UPI equivalent for e-commerce will help create a robust playbook

The central government’s ambitious Open Network for Digital Commerce’s (ONDC’s) small-scale implementation is set to begin from Friday to see how the technology-enabled infrastructure works, thereby making processes more robust before it is officially launched.

This will be done across five cities — Delhi, Bengaluru, Coimbatore, Bhopal, and Shillong. Thereafter, it will be scaled up and launched in 100 cities over a period of six months, said a senior government official. “The pilot aims to test end-to-end transactions on the ONDC architecture across different platforms, including ordering, payment, and delivery. This exercise will help in the creation of a robust playbook