"The draft policy for e-commerce indicates a strong intent to create a level-playing field among all e-commerce players, accelerate the growth of the sector by widening the base of manufacturers and traders, simplifying GST and taxation, migrating towards high standards of data protection, digitalising the supply chain rather than disintermediation thus moving closer to realising the goal of a digitally-enabled New India."

Vidhya Shankar
Executive director, Grant Thornton India LLP

This article appeared in Fortune India on 31st July, 2018.