Amazon: Amazon to create 20 lakh jobs in India by 2030: CEO Andy Jassy to PM Narendra Modi – Times of India
CEO Jassy met Modi during his first state visit to the US in Washington DC on Friday, June 23. The two leaders spoke about supporting Indian startups, creating jobs, enabling exports, digitisation, and empowering individuals and small businesses to compete globally.
“Digitising Indian businesses, creating jobs”
Amazon has pledged to digitise 10 million small businesses, enable $20 billion in exports, and create 2 million jobs in India by 2025.
Currently, Amazon India is said to be on track to deliver on them, having already digitised over 6.2 million small businesses, enabled over $7 billion in exports, and created over 1.3 million direct and indirect jobs.
IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar too tweeted about Jassy’s meeting with PM Modi. “This big investment commitment by @amazonIN is to invest $26 billion by 2030 and create 20 Lakh jobs in India – is consistent wth PM @narendramodiji’s vision of a Digital and Self-Reliant India n will help further deepen the #AI(America-India) tech partnership,” he tweeted.
Amazon turns 10 in India
Amazon recently completed ten years in India. A journey that the company says started with just 100 sellers, an ingenious team, and “a vision to transform how India buys and sells online.” Today, Amazon claims to empower more than 12 lakh Indian businesses to sell crores of products online and deliver to customers in every serviceable pin code across the country.
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