Summary:
RSS-affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) on Saturday appealed to the central government to make the registration of e-commerce entities — falling under marketplace-based model and having local offices in India, be made compulsory. An inspection mechanism should be made to annually verify that such entities comply all terms and conditions of the revised e-commerce rules, that came into effect from February 1. Further, SJM argued that cash back should not be allowed by group companies of marketplace entities to buyers and the government should prescribe suitable accounting standards. SJM, in its communication to the union minister of commerce and industry Suresh Prabhu, emphasised that a code of conduct for marketplace model be prescribed to keep it a neutral marketplace. Major e-commerce firms, including Amazon and Flipkart, had written to the government seeing an extension to the deadline, unsuccessfully..