The government has provided MediaNama a detailed breakdown of the membership of the National E-commerce Think Tank in response to an RTI application. The members of the think tank are: From e-commerce companies, the CEOs of Flipkart, Ola, MakeMyTrip, Urban Clap, Snapdeal, PepperFry, Shopclues, Practo, Naukri and Justdial, among others; IT for Change's Parminder Jeet Singh; From payments companies, only Paytm and Jio; Industry associations like NASSCOM, FICCI and IAMAI; iSPIRT's policy director Nakul Saxena; Telecom and IT companies (from telecoms, only Airtel was included aside from Jio, represented by Sunil Bharti Mittal. Infosys, Wipro, Zoho, and TCS etc were represented from IT companies); From e-commerce companies, the CEOs of Flipkart, Ola, MakeMyTrip, Urban Clap, Snapdeal, PepperFry, Shopclues, Practo, Naukri and Justdial, among others; India's ambassador to the World Trade Organisation; RBI deputy governor BP Kanungo; Joint secretaries from several government departments; Praveen Khandelwal, the national secretary general of the brick-and-mortar union CAIT. The think tank also has subcommittees consisting mostly of these members, on topics such as Data protection, Net neutrality & interconnection issues, Data localisation & cross-border data transfer, Taxation, Logistics, Consumer confidence, Intellectual property, Future technologies (like blockchain), Fintech, FDI, and competition. The think tank met twice, according to the government's reply: once in April, and once in July. Suresh Prabhu led both meetings, which were held by the Ministry of Commerce. Read the full RTI response here The leaked draft national e-commerce policy primarily created from inputs by this think tank has drawn concerns from both…
