Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has said that his company plans to create a million jobs in India by 2025. Amazon is looking to create thousands of job opportunities in India, by expansion of its warehouses as an immediate measure.
These expanded warehouses are expected to be an addition to the existing 60 warehouses, or fulfillment centres, in 15 states, with a total storage capacity of over 32 million cubic feet, the company said in a blog post on Thursday (23 July). The expansion is touted to increase amazon’s capacity to an extent of close to 10 football fields.
“With the expanded network of more than 60 fulfilment centres, we look forward to creating thousands of job opportunities with competitive pay,” Akhil Saxena, Vice President, Customer Fulfilment Operations, APAC, MENA & LATAM, Amazon India, said in a statement. “Our investment in infrastructure and technology is to provide sellers with closer access to Amazon’s fulfillment offerings, customers with faster delivery on a wider selection of products and help ancillary businesses such as packaging, transportation and logistics,” he added.
These warehouses are to be situated at Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Patna, Lucknow, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Chennai, Ludhiana and Ahmedabad, and are said to make the experience more customer and retailer friendly.