Facebook is planning to train 5 million Indians in digital skills by 2021.

To help small businesses reach the global economy in India, Facebook is planning to train five million people in three years with digital skills, the top company executive said here on Saturday

New Delhi: To reach the skills in three years to help small businesses in India, the top executive of the company said here on Saturday.


With the aim of helping small businesses to acquire digital marketing skills on the opening day of the two-day Facebook Community Boost program, the social networking company has said that 150 million people and 50,000 villages in 48,000 villages already have one million people Have trained.

We have a very strong framework for partnership with local partners and state governments, "India's South Policy and Director Ankhi Das told reporters here that the company works closely with the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.

We are very excited that our programs such as Boosture Business, Shameen Business, which participate in partnership with state and central government, civil society and private institutions, economic changes and the mainstream of small businesses at the grassroots basis on the mainstream basis in the formal economy "He added.

Facebook training programs include simple lessons that help in creating a digital presence, avoiding expensive fees for website creation and hosting, tap into the growing mobile economy, more than two billion people globally have their products Achieving market access by marketing to marketers who use Facebook, awareness about their products and services Dhaan.

Das said that training programs for India will help people to know how to use Facebook-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram.

Training modules for these businesses are available in 14 local languages ​​in digital marketing and online security developed by Facebook.

Facebook said that its programs have reached 29 states in other states including Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Punjab, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Orissa and Rajasthan.

In addition, Facebook Jobs enables posting job listings to product businesses and enables youth to find jobs in remote geographic areas.

Citing the findings of a recent survey, Das said, "More than 80% of SMB (small and Midisse business) on Facebook say that they have increased sales due to reaching the forum and global and local markets."

The results show that 70 percent of SMB on social networking platform has made its business on Facebook.

With all these facts, we are encouraged by five million people and entrepreneurs to see training in very important digital skills by 2021. "

When asked if Facebook will stop businesses from stopping fraud or exaggerated claims on the forum, Das said that when someone reports the matter, then Facebook will take action.

In addition, customers should check the authenticity of claims made on Facebook. He said that unlike other e-commerce platforms, actual transactions are not on Facebook, "he said, adding that the platform is mainly being used to increase product awareness.

It comes to dealing with the wrong information on the platform, Facebook mainly depends on "reliable violence" yardstick, which means it will remove content when its reviewers determine that the ability to harm individuals in the material is.

On the concerns of businesses that generate page views such as fake, Das said that Facebook is aggressively spreading false information on the platform by taking fake accounts.

In the last two quarters, Facebook has removed more than 1.5 billion fake accounts, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a note last week.