HT Bureau
GUWAHATI, April 22: Flipkart announced the inauguration of India’s largest fulfillment center in Haringhata, West Bengal on Thursday. The tech-enabled facility that will create more than 11,000 job opportunities and will support around 20,000 sellers from the state and North-East region, was inaugurated virtually during the Bengal Global Business Summit (BGBS) 2022 by the chief minister, Mamata Banerjee in presence of principal chief advisor to chief minister Amit Mitra, Industries minister Partha Chatterjee, minister of Transport and Housing Firhad Hakim, and chief secretary HK Dwivedi.
Located 50 km from Kolkata, the Big box facility has an integrated supply chain management spread across 110 acres. It will help strengthen the local economy with the availability of a stronger supply chain infrastructure to connect thousands of sellers from West Bengal and the NorthEast region with national market access while also catering to growing customer demand. With 5 million cubic feet of storage spread across six mezzanine levels, the Haringhata fulfillment center will have a total built-up area of 2 million sq feet.
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In a testament to Flipkart’s commitment to building a sustainable supply chain, the Haringhata facility has achieved the unique distinction of being India’s first e-commerce facility to be provisionally certified with a Platinum rating by the Indian Green Buildings Council (IGBC), under the new warehouse category of the IGBC Green Logistics Parks and Warehouses Rating System. The Rating System is a ‘first-of-its-kind and exclusively’ developed framework to address sustainability in logistics parks, warehouses, and other storage facilities in the country. It integrates multiple dimensions of sustainability such as reduced carbon emissions, enhanced energy and water savings, rainwater harvesting, resource management, biodiversity protection, optimized lead time, enhanced storage space utilisation, better health and well-being of occupants, and higher productivity of the workforce.
