ONDC to create new class among e-commerce users

The ONDC network is unique and limitless. One of India’s biggest tech mavens, Nandan Nilekani has time and again said that ONDC will create a new class of e-commerce users and benefit India on the whole by enlisting people who didn’t think of e-commerce earlier.
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