New Delhi, April 30: Covering a niche bracket of masses, the department of tribal affairs has brought in a new arena for exhibiting their products. With the launch of the new 'e-Tribes:Tribes India', Tribal Affairs Minister Juan Oram launched the website with an initiative for digital commerce at Tribes India outlet at Mahadev Road.
It included launch of e-commerce portal of TRIFED, www.tribesindia.com and M-commerce, android app 'Tribes India'.
The minister also launched the Tribes India banner on Snapdeal, Amazon, Paytm and GeM for the marketing of tribal products through these e-commerce portals. During the launch he said, "With this, more than 55,000 tribal artisans connected to TRIFED will get access to local as well as international markets.”
The event also included launching of the retail inventory software prepared by TRIFED, wherein all sales and procurement would be digitized. TRIFED will not accept manual information from its offices with effect from April 1.