Flipkart, India’s homegrown e-commerce marketplace said it would onboard 1.2 lakh new sellers and medium, small and micro enterprises on its platform by December 2021. These new entrants would potentially create over 4 lakh direct and indirect jobs in the country. Flipkart has already on boarded around 75,000 sellers on its platform over the last few months. The new sellers and MSME base predominantly come from Tier 2 and 3 markets such as Agra, Indore, Jaipur, Panipat, Rajkot, Surat, and many others.
Currently, the Flipkart Marketplace supports digital commerce for 3.75 Lakh sellers and is steadily working towards taking this number to 4.2 lakh sellers on its platform by the year end. Rajneesh Kumar, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Flipkart Group, said, “Our continuous effort is to ensure that every small business, MSME, women-entrepreneur, artisan, weaver or handicraft marker is an active participant in the upcoming festive season. We are also very excited to see partnership with Kiranas growing rapidly as part of our last-mile delivery program.”
