People affected by the lockdown can call the Free Ration; which is manned by a 15-member call centre, or contact them through the app
The members of the association sustain their livelihood by selling goods of daily needs like biscuits, soft drinks, mineral water, cigarettes, bidi, pan etc
Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla clarified what constituted food and grocery and the exemptions during the nationwide lockdown, while easing the norms for issuing curfew passes
Online grocery, which is barely about four per cent of India's $600-700 billion grocery market, has seen an overnight surge.
That's because, according to KSA Technopak, e-commerce firms sell gross merchandise value of only $2.5 billion. That's minuscule in the $550-billion annual sales of food and groceries in 2019-20.
The biggest challenge is that groceries must stay cold for hours at a time