India, Sept. 24 -- Kolkata Sept 24 (IBNS): In view of the upcoming festive season and the Big Billion Days, Flipkart,an e-commerce marketplace, has added over 50,000 direct jobs across its supply chain, logistics arm and customer support.

In addition to that, it expects to have increased the indirect jobs through the seller network by 30% as compared to last year taking it to 6.5 lakh in the run up to BBD. The annual event which begins on September 29th to October 4th this year will witness the biggest ever shopping extravaganza by millions of consumers, also helping generate lakhs of direct and indirect jobs for the festive season.

The directly employed workforce is spread across the entire supply chain, from Flipkart Wishmasters to pe...