Issuing a press statement, the company informed that the day-long event featured three different panels with experts in their respective fields. In the program, keynote speakers were Dr. Ganesh Prasad Pandeya, Secretary, Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies and Dr. Baikuntha Aryal, Secretary, MoCIT as well as special guest, Kewal Prasad Bhandari, Member of Secretary, National Planning Commission.
Aanchal Kunwar, Managing Director of Daraz Nepal said that the company “wants to be an active channel of change and a stepping stone in this dialogue”.
According to the statement, the three panels covered the topics ‘From Conventional Commerce to E-commerce in Nepal’, ‘Blending of the Market Place and Commerce for Digital Economy’, and ‘Uplifting Communities through the Power of Digital Commerce in Nepal’. In these discussions, panelists were Guru Prasad Paudel, NRB; Ambica Shrestha, Dwarika’s Hotel; Omesh Lal Shrestha, CAS Solution and Silver Lining; and Bimal Aryal, Daraz Nepal, Suresh Shrestha, Department of Industry; Shankar Uprety, Hamro Patro; Ayush Shrestha, Cloud Factory; and Santosh Pandey, OHO Cake and Offering Happiness Gobinda Bahadur Karkee, Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies; Dileep Agrawal, Worldlink Communications; Sanjib Subba, NePS and Aanchal Kunwar, Daraz Nepal.
“In the past four years that Daraz has been providing services to Nepal, it has succeeded in creating a reliable, useful, and popular market place to meet locals' demands. With over 15,000 sellers, 15 lakh active app users per month, and deliveries to 101 cities in Nepal, Daraz has quickly revolutionized the ecommerce space,” reads the stateme.
