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In order to promote ease of doing business, Joint Secretary in the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) Sanjiv Singh has said that the government is working to bring a national retail trade policy for brick and mortar retail traders. He added that the policy would also help in providing better infrastructure and more credit to traders.

Sanjiv further said that the Department is also working to bring an e-commerce policy for online retailers. Besides, the Department is also in the process of formulating an insurance scheme for all the retail traders. He said the accident insurance scheme would particularly help small traders of the country.

Urging the industry to focus on producing high quality products, the Joint Secretary said that the government is trying to do policy changes not only in e-commerce but national retail trade policy which will be for physical traders which will be introducing ease of doing business, providing better infrastructural facilities, providing more credit and providing all sorts of benefits to traders.