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Amazon enables digitisation of over 1 million small businesses in India

This includes sellers, delivery and logistics partners, neighbourhood stores, enterprises, developers, content creators and authors working with Amazon in India

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Earlier this year, Jeff Bezos-led Amazon had pledged to invest $1 billion to digitise 10 million SMBs, enable e-commerce exports worth $10 billion and create 1 million incremental jobs – by 2025. Photo: Bloomberg

Peerzada Abrar Bengaluru
Technology (tech) giant Amazon said it has enabled digitisation of more than 1 million small and medium businesses (SMBs) in India. This year alone, more than 150,000 new sellers have joined its marketplace platform. This makes it one of the biggest examples of tech adoption of small businesses in the country. The Covid-19 pandemic has also accelerated the adoption of tech by SMBs.

The SMBs include sellers, delivery and logistics partners, neighbourhood stores, enterprises, developers, content creators and authors in India, according to the 2020 Amazon SMB Impact Report. These SMBs, in turn, provide livelihoods to millions of people.  “This is