New Delhi, June 26 -- The draft of National Retail Policy will be available in the span of 10 days for the trade fraternity to evaluate and prepare comments on it, said Ramesh Abhishek, Department for Promotion of Industrial and Internal Trade Secretary (DPIIT).

He chaired a meeting with the trade associations of India to discuss the National Retail Policy. The meeting was convened by the Ministry of Commerce while CAIT, Swadeshi Jagran Manch, Laghu Udyog Bharti, Retailers Associations of India, CII, FICCI, ASSOCHAM, PHD Chamber and others also attended it.

According to Abhishek, the Government took considerable efforts to measure the ground realities of retail trade and the Policy is being designed to relieve the traders of daily hards...