Amazon India Aims at Creating 20 Lakh Direct and Indirect Jobs by 2025

Amazon India claims to have created over 1,35,000 new jobs across industries in the last one year, and is on track to create 20 lakh jobs

Amazon India shared updates on its key pledges for India and announced that it has cumulatively created more than 11.6 lakh direct and indirect jobs, enabled nearly $5 billion in cumulative exports, and digitized over 40 lakh MSMEs in India till date. In January 2020, at the first edition of its annual event Amazon Smbhav, the company had pledged to digitize 1 crore MSMEs, enable $10 billion in cumulative exports and create 20 lakh jobs in India by 2025. 

Last year at Amazon Smbhav 2021, Amazon had announced the $250 MM Amazon Smbhav Venture Fund to invest in startups and entrepreneurs who are focused on technology innovations. The fund is focused on supporting entrepreneurs and startups that are doing innovative work in the area of SMB digitization. As part of the fund, Amazon has already invested in ‘MyGlamm’, ‘M1xchange’ and ‘Small Case’. Amazon remains committed to leveraging its people & tech resources to invest into focus areas for the Fund, including multiple new and emerging areas that are seeing high degree of innovation and entrepreneurial energy.

Amazon India has cumulatively created over 11.6 lakh direct and indirect jobs in India

Amazon’s efforts towards digitization of MSMEs, and boosting exports from the country are helping create tens of thousands of livelihood opportunities in the ecosystem. In the last one year, Amazon helped create over 135K direct and indirect jobs across industries. These jobs are across industries like IT, E-commerce, Logistics, Manufacturing, Content Creation, Skill Development and more as well as other indirect jobs that Amazon has helped create in the seller community.

Indian exporters on Amazon Global Selling are on track to cross $5 billion in cumulative ecommerce exports

Amazon is focused on creating a robust infrastructure to help Indian businesses address customers in 200+ countries and territories, create global brands from India and grow exports strongly through its Global Selling program. The program is witnessing rapid momentum and today there are more than one lakh (100K) exporters on the program who are on track to cross $5 billion in cumulative exports. Amazon Global Selling took three years to enable the first billion dollars in cumulative exports and only 17 months to enable the last two billion dollars.    

Amazon has digitally enabled more than 40 lakh MSMEs

Amazon has digitized over 4 million MSMEs including sellers, artisans and weavers, delivery and logistics service partners, said a statement from the company. The Company’s digitization efforts are empowering small businesses including local retail stores, artisans and grassroot entrepreneurs to reach their customers and broaden their reach even further. In July 2021, Amazon opened its first Digital Kendra in Surat to bring the benefits of digitization closer to small businesses.