BENGALURU: India’s e-commerce boom is attracting entrepreneurs and artisans from slums across the country. Nadeem Sayed, 28, a resident of India’s largest slum, Dharavi in Mumbai, is one such person who is finding enthusiastic buyers overseas for his leather jackets online. Like him, many slum dwellers from Delhi, Bengaluru , Haryana and Rajasthan are selling products such as luggage, shoes, accessories, pottery, apparel and jewellery on online marketplaces including Amazon Snapdeal , eBay and Indianroots.Sayed said he started selling jackets under Candid Leather brand name just a year ago and now he owns a two-bedroom house in Thane. “On Black Friday (November 27, 2015) I sold goods worth $10,000 (about Rs 6.84 lakh),” he said.“Earlier I used to work for Rs 15,000 per month as karigar (craftsman) of leather jacket. Now I earn $22,000 (Rs 15 lakh) a month by selling jackets to markets like the US, UK and Canada.”Similarly, Sundari Das, 22, from Pilkhana in Kolkata and her team of five other women who used to work as housemaids earlier have been selling chikankari embroidery bedsheets, napkins and table covers online for the past two years.Das, who sells to Malaysian buyers, said she is saving for her girl child. “Education is very expensive. Moving to a bigger and better place can wait, her age and education won’t,” she said. Each member of the team now earns Rs 25,000 a month compared with just Rs 3,000 earlier.Sensing an opportunity, US-based Amazon unveiled its global selling platform in India last year. This enables easy, simple and convenient access for all Indian sellers – including entrepreneurs, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and manufacturers – to Amazon marketplaces across the globe.“Like China, India is on a strong growth trajectory. With burgeoning internet penetration and adoption of e-commerce, global sales from India will be a significant contributor for Amazon in the years to come,” said Eric Broussard, vice president-international seller services, Amazon.com. Amazon has now extended its global selling programme to allow Indian SMEs to sell on nine marketplaces including the US, Japan, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, the UK and Mexico. “Currently over 6,000 sellers from India have access to this global customer base and can ship their products to 185 countries,” said Broussard.All these online platforms are providing access to sellers to market products made in India on its platform to global customers. This is in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Make in India initiative to turn the country into a manufacturing hub to create jobs and lift incomes. Earlier this month, Amazon said it had set up dedicated ‘Make in India stores’ on its India and US websites.Commerce platform Paytm said it will launch a new section on its app and website for Indian-origin products. “Some sellers have expressed interest in being able to sell globally through our platform. Currently, we are in the process of finalising our partners, processes and plans to make this happen. This is also in line with our overall philosophy of enabling sellers to expand and grow their business by targeting local markets,” said Sudhanshu Gupta, vice president, Paytm.Paytm and its largest investor Alibaba have entered into an agreement that will allow the Indian payments firm to expand its network to overseas markets such as the US and China. The tie-up will also give Alibaba’s financial arm Alipay access to India’s fast-growing payments services industry.Online marketplace Snapdeal has launched on its website a wide range of products manufactured in Dharavi by more than 200 entrepreneurs who sell clothes, bags and accessories from their 80 square feet homes-cum- workshops.As per industry body Assocham , the e-commerce industry in India is likely to be worth $38 billion by the end of 2016, a 67% jump over that a year ago and a tenfold jump since 2009. It said the revenue will grow fivefold to sevenfold during this period.“Increasing internet and mobile penetration, growing acceptability of online payments and favourable demographics have provided the e-commerce sector in India the unique opportunity to companies to connect with their customers,” said Assocham’s latest report.