Providing a boost to the e-commerce industry in India, the post
departments had handled cash on delivery (COD) orders worth Rs.500 crore up to
March 2015 and is expected to reach about Rs.1,500 crore by end of 2015-16,
Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said
on Thursday.
Till December 2015, the COD value has crossed Rs.1,000 crore.
Speaking at the meeting of the Parliamentary Consultative
Committee attached to the communications & IT ministry, on the e-commerce
initiatives of the department of posts, he said various steps...