Chennai, Sept. 21 -- union Minister of State for Communications and Rural Development Dr.Chandra Sekhar Pemmasanvisited Madurai on Sunday and participated in a series of programmes organised by the Department of Posts, and launched the India Post-Open Network for Digital Commerce partnership in Southern Region, Madurai.

The initiative brought together ONDC's open digital-commerce network and India Post's extensive nationwide logistics infrastructureto connect farmers, Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs), artisans, MSMEs and other local enterprises with customers across India,a PIB release said here today.

As part of the initiative, Southern Region partnered initially with three FPO enabling sellers participating in the ONDC network to us...