India, March 11 -- The Karnataka Assembly has passed a legislation which will bring ecommerce platforms trading notified agricultural produce under the ambit of a licensing regime.

As per news agency PTI, the Karnataka Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation and Development) (Amendment) Bill underlines rules for establishing and operating ecommerce platforms for selling certain agricultural products. Such platforms would be able to operate only after obtaining necessary licences.

"For example, DMart, BigBasket, Amazon and Udaan come in our ecommerce platform. They are doing business evading our legal provisions. We are bringing this law to regulate them from doing business without paying cess," state agricultural marketing minister S...