- By Aditya Pratap Singh
- Thu, 23 May 2024 02:14 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
Beggars Corporation, an organisation empowering beggars, launched its online store on Open Network For Digital Commerce (ONDC) on Thursday to empower beggars-turned-entrepreneurs in selling products made by them all over India. Prof. Krishnamurthy V Subramanian, Executive director of IMF and former chief economic advisor to the government of India, was the chief guest for the launching event which was hosted in Varanasi.
To announce the news, Beggar Corporation took the professional social site LinkedIn and wrote, "Open Network For Digital Commerce (ONDC) joins hands with Beggars Corporation to empower the beggar-turned-entrepreneurs (BTE) in selling their products online all over India."
ONDC MD and CEO T Koshy also took to his LinkedIn page to share the news. "ONDC helping to change the society grounds up," he wrote.
The move will help beggars who turned entrepreneurs after developing skills under the supervision of the Beggars Corporation team, to sell their products across India. The online store will fetch numerous customers as ONDC has a large customer base throughout the nation.
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What does Beggars Corporation do?
As per information on their official site, they are making beggars confident and capable of turning them into entrepreneurs. They believe that charity breeds poverty and numerous welfare schemes and programs of central government and non-government organisation (NGOs) have failed to solve the problem of begging. So, the bigger corporation aims to convert donations into social investments and impactful purchases. The organisation is headquartered in Varanasi and it aims to make India begging free.
About ONDC
The Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), a Section company, was incorporated on December 31st, 2021. It is an initiative of the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India. This initiative seeks to create a facilitative model that revolutionizes digital commerce by giving greater thrust to the penetration of retail e-commerce in India. ONDC is not an application, platform, intermediary, or software. Instead, it is a set of specifications designed to foster open, unbundled, and interoperable Open Networks.