11.6 lakh jobs created in India: Amazon

Bengaluru: Manish Tiwary, Country Manager, India Consumer Business Amazon India on Sunday said that the E-commerce giant has cumulatively created over 11.6 lakh direct and indirect jobs in India. The jobs created are across industries like IT, e-commerce, logistics, manufacturing, content creation, skill development and more.

Amazon has targeted to create 20 lakh direct and indirect jobs by 2025, and said that they were on track to achieving it. "We have cumulatively created over 11.6 lakh jobs, enabled nearly $5 billion in exports and digitised over 40 lakh MSMEs in India," Tiwary said.

Earlier this month, Amazon announced it aims exports worth $20 billion from India by 2025, thus doubling its goal. In 2020, Amazon pledged to enable $10 billion in cumulative exports from India by 2025.

In January 2020, the company had pledged to digitise 1 crore MSMEs.

To date, it has empowered over 40 lakh MSMEs including sellers, artisans and weavers, delivery and logistics service partners, etc.

"Technology and mobile internet will continue to positively impact India's economic growth, and we see Amazon playing a larger role in the country's digital transformation and a modern, thriving digital economy," Tiwary added.

The company last year announced the $250 million Amazon Smbhav Venture Fundae to invest in startups and entrepreneurs who are focused on technology innovations.

As part of the fund, Amazon has already invested in startups like MyGlamm, M1xchange and Small Case.

With inputs from IANS