Context :
Govt
to set up a non-profit company to facilitate equitable e-commerce growth
/ HT
/ 27 Oct
2021
Extract :
Blue chip firms such as State Bank of
India (SBI), Punjab National Bank (PNB), and leading bourses — BSE and NSE —
are keen to promote an indigenously-developed
and not-for-profit online network to check the dominance of e-commerce giants such as Amazon
and Flipkart, officials aware of the plan have said.
Senior executives of several companies indicated their
willingness to put in equity in the proposed private entity that will execute
the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) at a meeting chaired by commerce and industry minister
Piyush Goyal on Monday, they said requesting anonymity.
The government has set up a
nine-member advisory council, including Nandan Nilekani, chairman of Infosys,
and National Health Authority CEO R S Sharma, to help with the conceptualisation
of ONDC.
The aim, according to the officials is to make e-commerce platform-agnostic.
Other firms interested in
participating in ONDC are Bank of Baroda, National Bank for Agriculture and
Rural Development (NABARD), Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI),
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), National Securities Depository
Ltd (NSDL) and Central Depository Services Ltd (CDSL), the officials cited in
the first instance added.
The official said it is “a work in progress” and “we aggressively
plan to set up the company by the end of this calendar year”. “However, no
existing market-participants [both domestic and foreign e-commerce platforms]
will be allowed to pick up any stake in the proposed company to ensure
neutrality,” he added.
A commerce ministry statement issued
on Tuesday confirmed the development. “A non-profit company structure removes
any incentive for owners to drive for profit maximisation, keep the focus on
ethical and responsible behaviour while providing for trust, rigorous norms of
governance, accountability and transparency,” it said. ONDC is an initiative of
the department for the promotion of industry and internal trade (DPIIT), an arm
of the ministry.
A second official mentioned above said the network will
work for e-commerce in the same manner as Unified Payments Interface (UPI) does
in the digital payment space. “As UPI broke the duopoly of MasterCard and Visa
to allow indigenously developed payment options such as RuPay and BHIM, ONDC aims to unshackle the e-commerce space from dominant platforms and
allow seamless access to all stakeholders, including wide choices to customers
from one network without visiting different platforms,” the official said.
Explaining the objective of the
project in the Lok Sabha on August 4, minister of state for commerce Som
Prakesh said ONDC would make
e-commerce more inclusive and accessible for
consumers as they can access any seller or product through any compatible
application or platform. “It will enable the consumers to match demand with the
nearest available supply. This will also give consumers the liberty to choose
their preferred local businesses,”
he said.
ONDC aims to standardise operations, promote inclusion of
local suppliers, drive efficiencies in logistics and lead to enhancement of
value for consumers, he added.
According to the Confederation of All
India Traders (CAIT), ONDC will give
varied options to consumers purchasing goods or services online “thus enabling healthy competition in the e-commerce market
which is presently under hostage of few big e-tailers”.
“A huge market will be available
without much effort to e-tailers whereas consumers will also be able to buy the
goods of their choice from the seller of any company associated with this
platform. At present, a customer who is connected to only one portal can buy
goods from that only. To buy from any other portal, he has to go to another
portal, whereas on this network he is completely free to buy goods or services
from any firm without logging to any other e-commerce portal,” said CAIT secretary general Praveen Khandelwal, who is
also a member of the ONDC advisory council.
At the review meeting on Monday, experts
told Goyal that an ONDC gateway has been established and experts from the Quality Council of
India are executing the project in a mission mode. The meeting was also
attended by DPIIT secretary Anurag Jain.
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MY TAKE
:
Congratulations, Shri Piyush
Goyalji,
Imagine a buyer not
having to go from one portal to another !
And the ONDC Network
enabling him to buy goods / services from ANY firm, without logging to any
other e-commerce portal !
This innovation
will break up the oligopoly ( approaching “ near monopoly “ ) of existing e-Com
giants
While wishing ONDC
all success, I urge the HR Minister / Labour Minister to
“ copy “ this concept as far as “ Online
Job Portals “ are concerned
At present, millions
of “ Job-seekers “ have to :
Ø
Submit
their resumes on umpteen job-portals, one by one ( by filling in almost
identical Resume submit forms ), and keep track of umpteen passwords
Ø
Search
jobs ( much like searching for products / services on e-Com portals ), by login
to each job-portal separately. Then “ Apply Online “ if and when they find a
suitable job
The process for “
Employers / Recruiters “ is similar :
Ø
They
must buy a quarterly / annual “ subscription “ from each job-portals
Ø
They
must “ post “ their same / identical “
job advertisement “, one by one, on each job-portal
Ø
To
“ search “ suitable candidates, they must login and conduct “ Resume Search “
on each portal
It is worth
remembering that :
Ø
Each
job portal acts as a “ Silo “, holding close to its chest , millions of resumes
/ vacancies
Ø
A
huge number of Employers and Jobseekers registered on these portals are the
SAME
Ø
This
means a lot of “ Duplicate Databases “ ( of
Buyers and Sellers )
THE JOB-PORTAL SCENARIO DESCRIBED ABOVE, IS QUITE
SIMILAR TO THE SITUATION PREVAILING WITH E-COM PORTALS
This lead me to
suggest :
World
Wide Work Federation ( W3F ) ……………………………………….. [ 07 Oct 2010 ]
Following were the highlights of my above-mentioned
suggestion :
Purpose / Mission
Mission of the foundation would be to
Ø Carry job-related info (job advt / announcements) to jobseekers living
in the farthest corners of the world
Ø Carry job-applicant’s information (resumes / profiles / info posted on
public domain websites etc.) to employers / recruitment agencies, all over the
world
Ø Facilitate quick / accurate exchange of communications between the
jobseekers and employers everywhere
Website
W3F will have its own website, call
W3F website will accept as “ Partner Website ” any other website, which is willing to share its
own
Ø Job Advts
Or
Ø
Share
its job-announcements
Or
Ø
Wish
to receive RSS feeds from
www.world-wide-jobs.com
Who
can “contribute”, What to
Job Portals can provide :
Ø RSS feeds
of their job advts and resumes through Partnering
Ø Exposing
job-advts and resumes received from www.world-wide-jobs.com to its own users
Ø Delivering
#
“Job Alerts” to jobseekers
#
“Resume
Alerts” to Employers
-
through email alerts or SMS alerts.
Dear HR Minister / Labour Minister :
Do not to expect the job-portals to
react on their own to my suggestion, positively / enthusiastically
But just announce the Government’s intention to do “ a OPEN NETWORK
for ONLINE RECRUITMENT / ONOR “ – and witness a dramatic change in their
ATTITUDE !
ONOR too, deserves to be put into 4th gear !
With regards,
Hemen Parekh / hcp@RecruitGuru.com /
27 Oct 2021
Related Readings :
Ø A
Virtual Employment Exchange ……………………………..[ 10 Mar 2014 ]
Ø National
Career Service Portal …………………………………..[ 21 July 2015 ]
Ø TOWARDS
A NATIONAL JOB PORTAL ? ………………………[ 07 Feb 2016 ]
Ø www.ResumesExchange.com ……………………………………..[
09 Feb 2016 ]
Ø National
Jobs Policy : Treasure Hunt ……………………………[ 15 Dec 2017 ]
Ø Jobs
Data : How to automate Compilation………………..[ 07 May 2018 ]
Ø National
Recruitment Agency ( NRA )……………………….. [ 02 Feb 2020 ]
Ø e-Shram
can provide jobs to Unorganized Workers ?...[ 26 Aug 2021 ]
Ø
Congratulations, Pawan Goyal…………………………….. [ 16
Oct 2021 ]
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Ø Consortium
of Indian Job Portals : a First Step ……………[ 04 Aug 2020 ]
Extract :
But, quite similar to the “
Health-care System “, there is this “ Job-Search
System “, which too is “
fragmented “ and needs a similar “ Co-operation
“, to fix it
Here is an “ Action Plan “ :
Cooperation among ? > Dozens
of Job Portals
Which ?
# Naukri…………………………………………… 376244 job listings
# TimesJobs…………………………………….. 239179 job
listings
# MonsterIndia…………………… ……………. 2637 [ ? ]
# ShineJobs …………………….. …………….2,985 [
? ]
# National Career Service Portal….157321 job
listings and hundreds of other
To be Led By :
Shri Sanjeev Bhickchandani
Dear Sanjeev,
You are the Father of Online Recruitment Industry in India
Quite like " Covid
", Unemployment is our common enemy
Entire country looks up to you, to
rise above narrow business considerations and lead our army of "
Employment warriors ( Job Portals ) “ , to win this war
I am sure, you will not let them
down !
Common Cause :
Ø
Deliver suitable / matching,
“ Job Alerts “ ( daily on mobile
phone ) for every job-seeker, anywhere in India and enable him / her , to “
Apply Online “ against any of these jobs
Methodology :
Ø Create a COMMON / CENTRAL
database of all jobs listed on all partner
job-portals
Ø Create a COMMON / CENTRAL
database of all resumes posted on all partner
portals
Ø Enable any Company
to post its job-vacancy on any partner job-portal and be able
CENTRAL / COMMON database of resumes from any partner portal
Ø Enable any job-seeker to search ALL jobs from any partner job portal
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