Centre holds talks with digital commerce firms in run-up to G20 summit

More than 25 major digital commerce companies, including Amazon India, Flipkart, Ola, Paytm, and MakeMyTrip, met the government on Monday in the run-up to the Group of Twenty (G20) Summit scheduled to be held next week, said sources.

The commerce and industry ministry on Monday called a meeting ‘with industry stakeholders on e-commerce and data localisation’.

According to sources in the know, the industry might not debate digital taxation, data localisation, proposed e-commerce policy and so on at the event, given its curiosity about the government’s slant. 

“The meeting has been called quite unexpectedly. We are just going to meet the government representatives.