{"id":20295,"date":"2024-02-09T07:59:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T02:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20295"},"modified":"2025-04-06T00:23:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T18:53:34","slug":"digiready-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/digiready-certification\/","title":{"rendered":"DigiReady Certification"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About DigiReady Certification\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In this initiative, QCI, in conjunction with ONDC, aims to\u00a0assess and certify digital readiness of\u00a0Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSME) entities.<\/li>\n<li>By leveraging this\u00a0online self-assessment tool, MSMEs can evaluate their preparedness to seamlessly onboard as sellers on the ONDC platform, thereby expanding their digital capabilities and business potential.<\/li>\n<li>The portal is meticulously designed to facilitate a\u00a0streamlined seller journey, ensuring that MSMEs and small retailers can integrate seamlessly into existing digitized workflows.<\/li>\n<li>The certification process evaluates various\u00a0aspects of digital readiness, including the presence of necessary documentation for online operations, proficiency in using software and technology, integration with existing digitized workflows, and efficient management of orders and catalogue offerings.<\/li>\n<li>Significance: This initiative presents additional business prospects for sellers, allowing them to become integral to the digital ecosystem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key points about Quality Council of India<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was established in 1997 jointly by the\u00a0Department for Promotion of Industry &amp; Internal Trade (DPIIT), the Ministry of Commerce &amp; Industry, and\u00a0the Indian industry.<\/li>\n<li>It is registered as a non-profit organizationunder the\u00a0Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860.<\/li>\n<li>It is operated through the constituent Boards of QCI, primarily the National Accreditation Board for Certification Bodies (NABCB), and the National Accreditation Board for Testing &amp; Calibration Laboratories (NABL),<\/li>\n<li>Composition\n<ul>\n<li>It is governed by a Council of 38 members with equal representations of government, industry and consumers.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0Chairman of QCI is appointed by the\u00a0Prime Minister on the recommendation of the industry to the government.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Open Network Digital Commerce?<\/h3>\n<p>It is an open-source network set up to enable buyers and sellers to transact with each other irrespective of the e-commerce platform on which either of them are registered.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=2003914\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Quality Council of India and Open Network for Digital Commerce launch DigiReady Certification Portal to empower MSMEs and small retailers\u00a0<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DigiReady Certification aims to assess and certify digital readiness of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSME) entities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}