WHO WILL BENEFIT
- Standards to cover sectors such as food aggregators, cab aggregators, online health care services, and others
- Shared economy predominantly covers shared mobility, co-working, co-living, furniture rental
- Need to standardise comes from rising number of complaints
The officials also confirmed that the BSI is planning to adopt standards published by the International Organisation Standardization for (ISO) as Indian standards.
Over time, the standards would cover sectors such as food aggregators, cab aggregators, online healthcare services and others.
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