{"id":1045966,"date":"2026-10-31T07:35:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T02:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1045966"},"modified":"2026-10-31T08:48:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T03:18:58","slug":"open-digital-infra-has-critical-role-to-play-in-accelerating-digitalisation-of-retail-sector-dpiit-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/31\/open-digital-infra-has-critical-role-to-play-in-accelerating-digitalisation-of-retail-sector-dpiit-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Open digital infra has critical role to play in accelerating digitalisation of retail sector: DPIIT Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Open digital infrastructure has a critical role to play in accelerating the digitalisation of India&#8217;s retail ecosystem, particularly its vast network of kirana stores, a top government official said on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Addressing a programme on digitisation of trade, Secretary in the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) Amardeep Singh Bhatia said that ONDC&#8217;s DigiDukaan is an important step in this direction. <\/p>\n<p>By bringing together retailers, FMCG companies and distributors on a common network, DPIIT, along with ONDC, is helping build a more connected and efficient general trade ecosystem, creating a pathway for digitalisation to reach kiranas at scale, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open digital infrastructure has a critical role to play in accelerating the digitalisation of India&#8217;s retail ecosystem, particularly its vast network of kirana stores, a top government official said on Friday. Addressing a programme on digitisation of trade, Secretary in the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) Amardeep Singh Bhatia said that ONDC&#8217;s DigiDukaan is an important step in this direction. By bringing together retailers, FMCG companies and distributors on a common network, DPIIT, along with ONDC, is helping build a more connected and efficient general trade ecosystem, creating a pathway for digitalisation to reach kiranas at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045991,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045966\/revisions\/1045991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}