New Delhi: After the draft rules of consumer protection, the government on Friday said it would immediately issue e-commerce policies, clarifying certain aspects, because the platform did not follow the rules, in letters and spirits.
“After we complete the rules of consumer protection, we will come out with any e-commerce policy and any clarification – we do not change any policy for e-commerce for FDI.
This policy is clear since then (sector) opened, but certain examples have been Come to our notification, where the policy is not followed in letters and spirits.
We will clearly clarify that it is very short, “Minister of Trade & Industry and consumer affairs Piyush Goyal told reporters.
The domestic trade group has protested players such as Amazon and Flipkart for allegedly violating the provisions of foreign investment policies (FDI) on the marketplace, the problem where the government also expressed concern.
While the government had previously issued a draft e-commerce policy, he had to put it in the backburner due to high decibble protests from foreign players and lobby groups representing them.
However, tweaking the FDI rules, forcing them to work back their operations because government policies do not allow inventory-based models and only allow Amazon type entities to operate as e-marketplaces.
The design of consumer protection regulations has several elements of the e-commerce policy drafafe which is now none, such as an examination of “Flash sales” – which is clarified by the government is a back-to-back sales setting between markets and entities where it has an interest.
Even this proposal has been attacked by Amazon and Flipkart.
“We recently announced (draft) consumer rules under consumer protection laws, this is a series, which involves consumer affairs, FDI policy, and e-commerce policy.
We want to come out with consumer protection rules first because we believe that most important stakeholders are consumers and we want to ensure that consumer protection wins over everything.
It has sent a very strong message to the world because sometimes there are criticisms that our e-commerce policy leans on foreign investors.
by announcing the E- policy Commerce for consumer protection, we have shown that our leading concern is consumers, “said Goyal.