Strong distribution technology is needed for Grassroot inventors | Nitin Saluja | Techनींव@75

Mr. Nitin Saluja, Amazon India's Senior Policy Manager for Customer Trust: Amazon has a larger role to play in India's digital revolution and thriving digital economy. We have made major investments in logistics to assist small businesses, including 60 fulfillment facilities, 10850 Amazon-owned partner delivery centers, and sorting centers in 19 states. Ecommerce can be used to build a strong digital business that will support the livelihoods of millions of people. The National Innovation Foundation (NIF) Incubation Council and Amazon have stepped forward to provide robust distribution technologies for grassroots entrepreneurs. These technologies are being used not only for selling on e-commerce platforms like Amazon, but also for creating specific storefronts to ensure that these products do not slip past the eyes of potential customers. Some initiatives are also being pursued in collaboration with NIF with a focus on capacity-building workshops and training programs for grassroots innovators for them to fully leverage the marketplace. Amazon's approach has been to digitally enable sellers of all sizes by implementing new technologies to unlock customer selection, lower operational costs for them so that they can earn more value, and build an infrastructure to ensure fast and reliable delivery to all customers. As part of this endowment, we invested USD 1 billion (1) in January 2020 to digitize 10 million small and medium-sized enterprises, (2) to enable $10 billion in exports, and (3) to create 2 million jobs by 2022. We have already digitalized 2.5 million small and medium-sized businesses, resulting in 3 billion USD in exports and the creation of 1 million jobs. We are committed to digitally enabling them and collaborating with them to build national and global enterprises in India.


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