This Week, ONDC Will Go Live in Four More Cities

According to senior executives at the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), the network is working hard to bring intercity logistics onto the network, which will allow buyers from multiple cities to place orders on the platform and scale up quickly.

ONDC CEO T Koshy told ET, “By the end of this week, we expect to add at least four cities. Three of these cities are Chennai, Thrissur and Kannur. We may become ten from six. We are trying to organically build up. We are attempting 75- 100. We are putting that kind of pressure on our team. We will see a hockey stick graph rise in one year’s time.” The platform is bullish that it will go live in 100 cities by August, the network’s chief business officer Shireesh Joshi told ET.

Joshi added that once intercity logistics are available and seller applications are live in multiple locations then automatically, it can go live, “literally with a flick of a switch”. “From a buyer’s standpoint, even if there’s only one seller (for a certain product) in the country but buyers in 200 cities, if there are intercity logistics, people from those 200 cities can buy. We may even surpass the 100-cities mark,” Joshi said.