The Ministry of Commerce and Industry on Tuesday decided to set up a task force on e-commerce that will submit recommendations on several issues related to the sector within five to six months.

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The decision to set up the task force, under Union Commerce Secretary Rita Teaotia, was taken in the first meeting of the think tank on e-commerce that met under the chairmanship of Union Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu.

Officials from various government departments will be part of the task force.

"There will be several sub groups within the task force that will deal with a host of issues, including taxation, physical and digital infrastructure, FDI," Teaotia said.

"The basic objective of today's meeting was to formulate a pan India e-commerce policy. Several companies felt that the sector is not doing well without a national policy on e-commerce,” Teaotia added. ​

E-commerce companies including PayTM, Ola, Snapdeal, as well as industry body Nasscom participated in the meeting.

Regulators including Competition Commission of India (CCI) and

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) attended the meeting, along with Department of Economic Affairs Secretary Subhas Garg.

“Shared views on data protection and the need to protect interest of consumers. India has done good work on data connectivity. We need good fixed line connectivity under schemes like BharatNet,” Trai chairman R S Sharma said after the meeting.

First Published:Apr 24, 2018 7:48 PM IST