New Delhi, March 12 -- The government is set to digitize dispute resolution for small businesses, according to two people aware of the development, aiming to improve their ease of doing business and resolve rows over delayed payments.

An online dispute resolution (ODR) platform for smaller enterprises, to be launched soon by the Union MSME (micro, small and medium enterprises) ministry, is in its final stages of development. Once completed, the government will deploy it for a pilot, the people said.

"The ministry is about to undertake the massive job of training officials at MSEFCs to use the ODR portal before it goes live," said one of the people mentioned above, requesting anonymity.

MSEFC stands for 'micro and small enterprises faci...