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EBay India Focuses On Jaipur
Friday, September 28, 2007

eBay India, India's leading online marketplace, hosted an event today aimed at evangelizing eCommerce to residents of the pink city - Jaipur. Mr. Ambareesh Murty, Director - Marketplace Development, eBay India spoke on the global entrepreneurship opportunities presented by the eBay platform for Indian sellers. eBay Global Trade Seller & Jaipur resident Mr. Tarun Khandelwal was also felicitated on the occasion by Mr. Murty.

Mr. Ambareesh Murty, Director - Marketplace Development, eBay India, said, "eBay presents a great entrepreneurial opportunity for Indian sellers to sell products internationally to millions of eBay buyers worldwide. Global Trade or exports can be explained as sellers from India selling to buyers from other countries in addition to domestic shoppers. Global Trade on eBay India is seeing significant traction with as many as 7,200 entrepreneurial sellers having benefited from this opportunity."

eCommerce is increasingly becoming mainstream, with entrepreneurial Indians selling online to a wide audience. Today, the eBay community includes more than 241 million registered users worldwide. eBay provides an international platform where practically anyone can trade practically anything.

Mr. Murty also shared some key trends in Global Trade with Jaipur residents:
Key eCommerce trends for Global TradeI Sellers from Non-Metro towns increasingly selling globally: Jaipur largest base of non-metro global trade sellers.

There has been a definite increase in sellers from non metro cities selling globally through eBay India. Sellers from cities such as Shillong, Aizwal, Bakrol, Khanna and Khamaria are successfully trading with countries across the world. We see a growth in contribution of smaller cities to the business with 50 % of all global sellers on eBay India being from non-metro cities in India.
Jaipur has the largest base of global trade sellers amongst the non-metros. From Rajasthan, eBay India has seen global trade emerge from cities such as Jodhpur, Udaipur, Pilani, Ajmer & Bharatpur.

II English speaking countries are a large market for global tradeThere has been an increase in the demand for Indian products from thousands of buyers worldwide. In fact, buyers from over 150 countries have bought products from Indian sellers till date. An Indian seller sells an item to a global buyer every 72 seconds!

English speaking countries like UK, USA, Australia and Canada are natural markets for Indian sellers due to the ease of communication. However, enterprising Indian sellers have also made inroads into European markets such as Germany, France & Italy.

III Jewellery is the largest contributors to Global Trade from India - High demand also for Carpets, Handicrafts & Apparel.

Indian sellers are seeing tremendous success with products such as Jewellery, Apparel, Collectibles, Furnishings and Musical Instruments. eBay India sellers sell an article of clothing or accessory globally every 6 minutes while 9 pieces of jewellery sell every hour. A home furnishing item sells every 10 minutes while a coin or a stamp sells every 15 minutes. Interestingly, 14 musical instruments sell globally every hour.

An emerging trend is high demand from USA and UK for carpets, handicrafts and apparel which Indian sellers can start trading.

IV Jaipur large sourcing hub for gemstones on eBay India; metro based exporters benefiting, scope for increase in share of Jaipur local merchants.

For Indian global trade sellers from the metros, Jaipur is one of the largest sourcing hubs for gemstones. While exports from Non Metro cities is on the rise, the contribution of Local sellers has scope to increase in share as local merchants are largely acting as supply sources to sellers in larger Metro towns.

An emerging trend is that local merchants in Jaipur and surrounding areas of Rajasthan are starting to benefit from the excellent source of supply of coloured gemstones and starting to trade globally.

V Providing Entrepreneurship Opportunities

eBay India provides great entrepreneurship opportunities through its unique business model thereby making it possible for local products to be sold across the country. Through an excellent internet trading infrastructure, it has created the largest online bazaar that is free of middlemen and unconstrained by geographical boundaries thereby enabling frictionless interaction between buyers and sellers. At any given time more than 10,000 items are on sale globally from India sellers on the eBay platform. By June 2007, more than 7,200 sellers had transacted internationally

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Annual Bird Fair In Jaipur Disappoints Enthusiasts
Friday, September 21, 2007

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Jaipur, Sept. 21 (ANI): The annual bird fair in Jaipur has disappointed enthusiasts as the winged guests from abroad stayed away from their winter retreat this season due to increasing pollution levels.

With the onset of winter in the northern hemisphere, the Man Sagar Lake, becomes every year a favourite haunt of migratory birds from China and Siberia. But due to changed climatic conditions and increase in pollution levels of the Lake's water this year, the number of birds visiting the city has reduced drastically.

As more than 150 school children gathered on the banks of the Lake to participate in the fair, they could not help but notice the dip in the number of birds visiting this year.

"This is really an interesting and educative fair, but I do feel that in contrast to the earlier years, there are very few birds here. The previous year, we had a large variety of foreign birds. The lake used to be clean but because of our own activities like dumping waste and polluting it, the number of birds seems to have declined", said Sonal, a student.

The fair started three days ago, on Tuesday. The waste dumped into the water has affected the availability of flora on which migratory birds feed on. Experts have predicted if present trend continues then the Man Sagar Lake might not remain a favourite habitat for these foreign birds.
The authorities have taken steps to control pollution levels in the water and hope that more birds would visit the lake in the coming years. "Had we been careful in the first place, the lake would have been a much beautiful place." said Apeksha, a student.

Manoj Kulsherstra, a naturalist, says the lake has turned into a wetland and the State Government should take steps for its upkeep.

"We dump the city waste and the plastic bags. Once all this is taken out and the lake becomes deeper, I am sure more variety of birds will come here like before," he said. Some of the migratory birds usually spotted here were the Sandpiper, Ruddyurnstone, Blue Grouse, Blue cheeked Bee-eater, Flamingo and Pond Heron.

Plans are also afoot to develop about 160 acres of open land around the lake for an eco-tourism project. The 400-year-old historic Man Sagar natural water lake is known for its migratory birds all over the world. At least 113 species of birds visiting the lake have been identified by the Wild life Society of India.

The fair, on the lines of the famous British bird fair, is jointly organised by the Rajasthan State Tourism Department and the administration of Jaipur. (ANI)

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