ThinkEdu Conclave 2021: How Amazon created two lakh jobs during COVID-19 pandemic

T he pandemic has been the harbinger of bad news, but there have been a few silver linings and Amit Agarwal, Global Senior Vice-President and Country Head, Amazon India pointed one out to us at TNIE’s ThinkEdu Conclave. He was speaking during the session titled ‘Small is Beautiful: Sparking the Entrepreneurship Within’, which was chaired by Author and Political Economy Analyst Shankkar Aiyar.

Amazon India was able to create 2,00,000 jobs just last year plus it’s moving full-speed ahead towards the targets of its ‘Digitize India’ pledge detailed by Amazon’s Founder at the first-ever Amazon Smbhav Summit held in New Delhi last year.