Uttar Pradesh important state for Flipkart, says CEO; encourages state’s handicrafts to sell on marketplace

Walmart-owned e-commerce giant Flipkart’s chief executive officer Kalyan Krishnamurthy said that Uttar Pradesh (UP) is an important state for Flipkart from where many sellers and local MSME manufacturers sell products through Flipkart. The CEO, however, didn’t reveal the number of sellers on its platform coming from India’s most populous state (as per 2011 consensus). Flipkart, which competes with Amazon in India, claims of having over 1 lakh sellers on its platform.

Apart from these sellers, “we are also encouraging local handicrafts to market their products,” said Kalyan Krishnamurthy on the sidelines of the UP government’s second two-day Ground Breaking Ceremony on Sunday where over 250 industrial projects worth Rs 65,000 crore are being announced. Flipkart chief said that the projects announced during the ceremony will “play a key role in propelling UP as an industrial and innovation hub,” and that this will “help in the state’s quest to be India’s first $1 trillion state economy.”