Airline tickets at your local grocer? It's possible

Mumbai: Ever wondered how convenient it would be if your local grocer would also be able to help you pay your bills, book airline tickets and make hotel bookings? For all you know, he may already be providing these facilities.
A brainchild of Paresh Rajde, Founder, MD & CEO, Suvidhaa Infoserve Pvt Ltd, was started in 2007. Suvidhaa has 22,000 outlets in 500 cities and towns and has plans of taking it to 100,000 outlets in the next two years, maintaining a balance between metro and rural areas. The platform sees about 150,000 daily transactions.
Having faced a problem in getting an airline ticket on a Sunday, Rajde had to make an airport journey just to do so. The experience, coupled with the fact that 91 per cent of India's economy is cash-based and only five per cent are comfortable with online transactions, prompted Rajde to create a platform where a bouquet of services would be available to consumers at a single point.
16/07/10 Sneha Kupekar/Business Standard

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Categories: New Jul 2010