The Ecommerce giant Flipkart on Saturday,10 October has brought back its paid internship programme 'Launchpad' for undergraduate students approximately 1500 per day from tier-II cities to work in its supply chain ahead of the festive season and the Big Billion Days sale. The company said that the 45-day internship is aimed at helping students to gain critical skills in supply chain management and create an ecosystem of trained professionals for the e-commerce industry. The payout is completely dependent on the national and local labour laws and can even increase to 600 days depending on the place of work of the intern.

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The educational institutes across 21 locations including Binola (Haryana), Bhiwandi (Maharashtra), Uluberia and Dankuni (West Bengal) and Malur (Karnataka), Medchal (Telangana) and few more will work with flipkart , to identify meritorious students and engage the selected ones at its fulfillment centers. "We are confident of providing an engaging and immersive working experience to our interns during the upcoming festive season, which will help generate more interest towards the supply chain," said Amitesh Jha, Senior Vice-President, Flipkart.

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The students will be trained in various aspects of supply chain management whereas the health and safety is in first priority in the current pandemic situation. Precautionary measures include mandatory thermal screening before entering the facilities, maintaining social distancing while at work and use of the Aarogya Setu app at all times, the company said. The exposure will help the students to build long term resiliency, and agility in their operations thereby up skilling the interns in the fast changing scenario. Over 2,000 students participated in the internship programme last year.

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