Bharat TradeNet likely to be run by new agency

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- MUKESH JAGOTA

BHARATTRADE NET (BTN), a platform that the government has proposed for a single interface for trade documentation, will need a specialized agency for implementation and would take at least 2-3 years to become operational, a senior official said. "Whatever is required to achieve the objective of BharatTradeNet cannot be done with the limited manpower of the Ministry of Commerce. It will require a very strong IT team and very strong system architecture team. A section 8 (company) has to be created for implementing this," director general of foreign trade, Santosh Kumar Sarangi, said.