<p>India's leading e-retailer Flipkart plans to generate around two million jobs through its marketplace and ancillary services this year.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"Rapid development of e-commerce ecosystem will generate around two million direct and indirect jobs across the country in 2015 as against 500,000 jobs it created in 2014," the city-based company said in a statement here on Wednesday.<br /><br />As the company's marketplace model has opened up opportunities in metros and cities, about 60 percent of employment will be in tier-two and tier-three cities.<br /><br />"Cities like Jaipur in Rajasthan and Baroda in Gujarat, which have become ancillary industry hubs for cataloguing and packaging, will generate more job opportunities in the coming years," Flipkart vice-president Ankit Nagori said on the occasion.<br /><br />Asserting that logistics and warehousing segments in the e-commerce ecosystem would be major employment generators, Nagori said sellers play a vital role in job creation.<br />"Sellers of home products, apparels, mobile accessories and small appliances will generate maximum jobs, as each of them has potential to employ 20-25 people," Nagori added.<br /><br />E-commerce also empowers artisans and entrepreneurs to explore the e-platform to expand and grow their business.<br /><br />As the business of local artisans increase, demand for manpower will also increase.<br />With small and medium enterprises (SMEs) adopting our online model, ancillary and support services industry will witness a 30-40 percent growth, leading to 60 percent of employment creation in logistics and warehousing," Nagori said.<br /><br />With e-commerce emerging as one of the key drivers of the economy, its support facilities like merchandising, buying, packaging and cataloguing have generated over 75,000 jobs in the last 12 months.<br /><br />"We offer SME training programmes across 20 cities in association with the union ministry of labour to train people for upgrading their skills and chart-out careers in verticals of their choice," he said.<br /><br />With 30,000 sellers and 30 million registered customers, the eight-year-old start-up e-retailer clocks about 10 million page visits (hits) daily, reaches 1,000 cities and delivers eight million shipments per month, with back-up support through technology and supply chain.</p>
<p>India's leading e-retailer Flipkart plans to generate around two million jobs through its marketplace and ancillary services this year.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"Rapid development of e-commerce ecosystem will generate around two million direct and indirect jobs across the country in 2015 as against 500,000 jobs it created in 2014," the city-based company said in a statement here on Wednesday.<br /><br />As the company's marketplace model has opened up opportunities in metros and cities, about 60 percent of employment will be in tier-two and tier-three cities.<br /><br />"Cities like Jaipur in Rajasthan and Baroda in Gujarat, which have become ancillary industry hubs for cataloguing and packaging, will generate more job opportunities in the coming years," Flipkart vice-president Ankit Nagori said on the occasion.<br /><br />Asserting that logistics and warehousing segments in the e-commerce ecosystem would be major employment generators, Nagori said sellers play a vital role in job creation.<br />"Sellers of home products, apparels, mobile accessories and small appliances will generate maximum jobs, as each of them has potential to employ 20-25 people," Nagori added.<br /><br />E-commerce also empowers artisans and entrepreneurs to explore the e-platform to expand and grow their business.<br /><br />As the business of local artisans increase, demand for manpower will also increase.<br />With small and medium enterprises (SMEs) adopting our online model, ancillary and support services industry will witness a 30-40 percent growth, leading to 60 percent of employment creation in logistics and warehousing," Nagori said.<br /><br />With e-commerce emerging as one of the key drivers of the economy, its support facilities like merchandising, buying, packaging and cataloguing have generated over 75,000 jobs in the last 12 months.<br /><br />"We offer SME training programmes across 20 cities in association with the union ministry of labour to train people for upgrading their skills and chart-out careers in verticals of their choice," he said.<br /><br />With 30,000 sellers and 30 million registered customers, the eight-year-old start-up e-retailer clocks about 10 million page visits (hits) daily, reaches 1,000 cities and delivers eight million shipments per month, with back-up support through technology and supply chain.</p>