Providing a boost to the e-commerce industry in India, the post departments had
handled cash on delivery (COD) orders worth Rs.500 crore up to March 2015 and is
expected to reach about Rs.1,500 crore by end of 2015-16, Communications
Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Thursday.
Till December 2015, the COD value has crossed Rs.1,000 crore.
Speaking at the
meeting of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee attached to the
communications & IT ministry, on the e-commerce initiatives of the
department of posts, he said various steps taken by the department for gearing
up its capabilities for handling e-commerce parcel business as well as
introducing services such as COD have revolutionized the e-commerce business in
India.
Prasad also said the government's initiative to digitalize
functioning would help in making e-commerce reach every corner. He said the
initiative would further enhance India Posts' reach as national
carrier.
The department of posts had set up 48 new parcel processing
centers so far and nine more such centers are coming up during the current
financial year, he said.
"These efforts in the last eighteen months have
resulted in an overall revenue growth in the parcel segment by 45 percent during
2014-15 and more than 100 percent in the current financial year," Prasad
said.
Source: business-standard.com
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