The BMC, along with SNDT university, will develop an application for sale and delivery of products manufactured by women self-help groups across Mumbai. The civic body intends to create an online marketplace, besides market and brand products manufactured by women self-help groups in the city by developing an application for the same. The BMC will tie up with dabbawalas in Mumbai for delivery of these products. Additional Municipal Commissioner (Western Suburbs) Sudhakar Shinde directed the administration to develop a proper system for an online marketplace for products of the SHGs through the application. The Additional Commissioner also directed those products, which are sold on the online marketplace, should meet a certain quality standard. A delegation of the Mumbai Dabbawala Association met Shinde on Friday. The Dabbewala association also agreed to deliver products created by the women self-help groups all over Mumbai. According to a BMC release, there are about 10,000 women self-help groups in Mumbai, and more than a lakh women are engaged in producing various types of products including food and other items. The BMC has signed an MOU with SNDT university for developing the app. The app will also include photos and videos of the women, who are making products.

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