Artisans, weavers, and handicraft makers celebrate India’s heritage through a successful festive season with Flipkart

This yr’s festive season has been additional particular for artisans, weavers and handicraft makers throughout the nation as they catered to the rising shopper demand for indigenous merchandise, crafted to carry the wealthy tradition of India to life.

Flipkart, India’s homegrown e-commerce market, additionally created a particular assortment of merchandise as a part of their flagship initiative – Flipkart Samarth, to carry the wealthy and numerous artwork types of the nation onto its e-commerce platform.

Flipkart Samarth is designed with the intention of democratizing e-commerce and constructing a sustainable and inclusive platform for under-served, home communities to empower them with larger alternatives and higher livelihood.

Through the initiative, Flipkart’s purpose is to supply larger visibility to the made-in-India merchandise on its platform – merchandise that mirror the native range, tradition and capabilities of a heritage-rich nation. To drive larger visibility and promote the merchandise obtainable on the platform, the corporate has additionally created a devoted storefront on its app/web site so that customers can get quick access to their desired merchandise.

Today, via Flipkart Samarth, the corporate is ready to impression 7,00,000 plus livelihoods. Over the final yr, Flipkart Samarth noticed a 12x progress within the variety of companions who joined this system. These artisans, who grew to become a part of Flipkart’s annual festive season sale this yr, noticed a 2.5x improve compared to their common non-festive sale days.

The demand for these merchandise mirrored the growing development of individuals supporting native merchandise, with the top-performing classes for sellers of the Flipkart Samarth program being ethnic put on, house decor and pure/natural magnificence and grooming merchandise.

Encouraged by the success of sellers on the platform, Flipkart Samarth additionally noticed artisans, craftsmen, and weavers from new cities (7x progress from final yr), be a part of this system. 60 per cent of Flipkart Samarth’s companions are from Tier II and past, together with cities resembling Dharampuri, Palanpur, Ernakulum, Palghar and Ambala, showcasing the unfold of this system throughout the nation.

“The Governments at the Center and States have played a critical and enabling role in helping these under-served seller communities become part of the Flipkart Samarth initiative on the marketplace. Such initiatives play a prominent role in promoting the Government’s ‘vocal for local’ campaign, in turn helping build an ‘AtmaNirbhar India’. We are proud to be able to support the rich heritage of India and provide MSMEs, artisans and craftsmen an opportunity to leverage the power of e-commerce and also support flagship initiatives like ODOP in Uttar Pradesh,” mentioned Rajneesh Kumar, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Flipkart Group, talking on this subject of market entry for under-served vendor communities on e-commerce platforms.

Dhaval Patel, a part of Navrang Handicrafts, is at the moment empowering girls artisans from his village by supporting them in promoting their merchandise on Flipkart, underneath the Flipkart Samarth program. He has been witnessing virtually 100 orders per day and is grateful for the festive season to spice up the visibility of those handicraft merchandise extra.

Similarly, Boyanika – which helps Odisha’s weavers’ neighborhood is now getting orders for his or her reasonably priced vary of domestically produced cotton sarees, from throughout the nation. The weavers related to the model are thrilled that their merchandise are reaching each a part of the nation, and they’re getting bigger visibility.

From bringing Uttar Pradesh’s flagship ODOP initiative, Khadi merchandise, chikankari, and zari-zardozi work, to Karnataka’s famend handloom and handicraft manufacturers resembling Cauvery and conventional Bengali handicrafts, materials and artifacts via Biswa Bangla — Flipkart Samarth has been actively bringing native handicrafts and handlooms from throughout the nation to a pan-India shopper base.

The program has grown from power to power by the use of a number of MoUs with Government our bodies within the states of Jharkhand, Punjab, Odisha, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Gujarat and the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir, together with an MoU with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs to collaborate with their DAY-NULM initiative, spreading Flipkart Samarth’s attain to 23 states throughout the nation.

Flipkart always assesses the ache factors and aspirations of those teams, incorporating their wants and necessities in order that MSMEs, artisans, weavers, rural entrepreneurs, girls entrepreneurs and different under-served communities proceed to have an enriching vendor expertise throughout its numerous initiatives together with Flipkart Samarth.

Through such partnerships, the corporate is enabling livelihood alternatives for the handlooms and handicraft sectors and assist uplift the financial situations of this fraternity.

(This story has been revealed from a wire company feed with out modifications to the textual content.)

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