Swiggy’s new initiative, ‘The Next Project’, is designed to equip our delivery partners with skills, training, apprenticeships, and career opportunities across their value chain.
The program is the latest under ‘Swiggy Skills’ announced earlier this month by the Union government’s Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.
With Project Next, delivery partners will take on a new role within Swiggy as sales managers; they will be responsible for onboarding and managing Swiggy’s growing network of restaurants, mainly in tier two and tier three cities, providing restaurants with high-quality support on the platform.
According to the press release, this project aims to improve the expansion of restaurants in more than 150 growing markets and provide delivery partners with a meaningful career development.
Rohit Kapoor, CEO of Swiggy Food Marketplace, said, “Swiggy works with nearly 4 lakh partners across the country. To empower this group, we launched Project Next under our Swiggy Skills programme. This unique program will help our delivery partners transition from ‘blue collar’ to ‘white collar’ workers. It’s great to see that within weeks of the launch, hundreds of ‘Project Next’ partners have already boarded over 360 restaurants.”
The on-demand platform has plans to switch hundreds of delivery partners across cities like Vadodara, Amritsar, Nashik, Agra, and Dharwad.
Ravindra Khati, a 27-year-old delivery partner with Swiggy, is now a sales executive in Sikar, Rajasthan. “I have been trying to become a government teacher for a few years now but I have not succeeded. However, my role in Swiggy sparked my interest in private sector work, and now I see myself succeeding in this area,” he said.
Published – September 19, 2024 11:19 pm IST