nagpur trade leaders who had taken on ecommerce giants like amazon and flipkart in the courts front are now preparing for a battle on the business fronta case of was filed by confederation of all india traders cait in the competition commission of india cci against the deep discounting schemes during festivals and alleged predatory pricing by the etailers this was followed by an antitrust probe against the ecommerce giants which has been stayed by the karnataka high courtcait is an organization of small and unorganized retail traders a group of leaders of cait including its president b c bhartia have now formed a company lalamart technologies that will be launching ecommerce business to take on the giantsthe bharat emart portal will be launched in delhi on march 11 we are targeting 10 lakh small retails traders for registration bhartia told toia similar venture elala was launched in 2011 which did not get much success it was because the traders had to pay for getting registered on the portalnow there will be no charges for the sellers unlike other etailers no commission will be charged from the sellers our income will be from advertisement on the portal it may take time to make a profit but we are prepared for the long run said bhartiathe company already has the data of 10 lakh traders and will be soon sending messages to them its expected there would be a favourable response from traders dealing in a whole gamut of products he saidthe model also promotes hyper local businesses the registration of both sellers and buyers would be based on pin code with this any search by a buyer will first bring offers for shops within 3 kms of the purchasers location the options can be further expanded he saidbhartia said cait also plans appeal against the karnataka high court stay on the antitrust probe by cci cait also demands that the ongoing ed probe on alleged violation of foreign exchange laws against the etailers amazon and flipkart should be finished fast the probe was initiated after caits complaint he saidcait to continue gst stircait which had called a countrywide trade strike on february 26 has maintained the government should not label all transactions where no movement of goods is seen as fake if the tax is paid for such dealscait has been protesting against highhandedness of gst authorities probing against alleged fake transactions to claim input tax credit itcgst authorities have reported cases of buyers recording fake purchases to claim the credit on this cait maintained that some transactions may happen due to business compulsions and internal adjustments if the tax is paid on them then gst need not probe as it is not a case of evasion said bhartiafrom march 5 cait will hold month long agitations and submit memoranda to each states chief minister finance minister gst commissioner and principal secretary finance on march 12 demonstrations will be held in each district of vidarbha